Maloney asks for cost breakdown of proposed ferry routes

You mentioned in your statement that the routes that would, the study would require an additional, eight additional vessels and roughly 25 to 30 million for the expanded routes.

Do you have a breakdown of which of the proposed

routes would be more expensive for the city to implement versus others?

Yeah, so in order to respond as part of our process here, just in considering the bills, we did take a sort of high-level assessment.

So I would not describe this as the fine detail if we were doing that.

That's part of our vision study.

But we did take a quick look at the distance of some of the sites.

Notably, for the four bills that were presented, they're all quite far away from our existing service area.

And that is one of the single biggest cost drivers for a service, is how far away is it from where you go already.

So places like Canarsie, City Island, West 125th Street, and Willits Point all exist pretty far away.

They're not, you know, a stop along the way on an existing route.

And so each of these, we think, has a net operating cost of between $5 and $6 million a year.

And that's just to run it with two vessels back and forth.

We did not sort of take it too much further in the analysis where we would say, you know, do you have a spare vessel for it?

Do you want more service?

This is just the minimum that you need to have a regular service.

So, you know, they have reasonably high costs, and we would want to think about things like that in the context of a larger route.

You know, we rarely run a point-to-point service, but, you know, to quickly map out some of the costs, that's how we started.