the proposal is to:
- combine the Rockaway and Bronx routes into one monster ferry route spanning from Throgs Neck to Rockaway Park, with stops in four of the five boroughs (no subway line serves more than 3 boroughs)
- split the East River Route into “A” route and “B” route, a type of “skip stop” service
- link Staten and Brooklyn by ferry again by combining Bay Ridge/Sunset Park and Saint George routes
I am hoping the NYC Ferry system transitions to using numbered or lettered lines (or even named geography-neutral lines like the London Overground) - as it’s not really intuitive that someone traveling from Wall Street to Bay Ridge would take a “Saint George boat” or someone traveling from Midtown to Brooklyn Navy Yard would need to board the “Astoria ferry.”