Over the past three years, the MBTA began operating two new custom-built vessels from Long Wharf, while the city of Salem won a federal grant to procure a second vessel. Not only was ridership continuing to increase on the MBTA’s three ferry routes, other water transportation services were popping up around the harbor. Ferries in Boston Harbor were having a resurgence.

In early March, reductions in ferry service were outside the realm of imagination.

While ferries may seem an easy target in a time of budget challenges, these cuts will set ferry service back decades from a land use perspective and make the T’s most reliable transit service feel transient. Due to modest ridership that has yet to bounce back from the 14-week ferry shutdown, the services from Hull and Hingham that have operated since the 1970s and the Charlestown service that restarted in the 1980s could be closed again with no plans to reopen. Neighborhoods and points of interest in Boston, MA accommodation Dorchester, MA accommodation Boston Logan Airport (BOS) accommodation Chinatown - Boston accommodation North End - Boston accommodation Downtown - Boston accommodation Back Bay - Boston accommodation Beacon Hill - Boston accommodation Charlestown - Boston accommodation South End - Boston accommodation Roxbury - Boston accommodation Mission Hill - Boston accommodation West End - Boston accommodation Hyde Park - Boston accommodation Jamaica Plain - Boston accommodation Allston - Boston Popular destinations unique stay Bath unique stay San Jose, CA unique stay Barcelona unique stay Atlanta, GA unique stay Paris unique stay Porto, Portugal unique stay Honolulu, HI unique stay Lake George, NY unique stay Pigeon Forge, TN unique stay Athens unique stay Dallas, TX unique stay Gatlinburg, TN unique stay Crest unique stay Nice unique stay Leeds unique stay Los Angeles, CA unique stay Prague unique stay Preston unique stay Orange, CA unique stay Toronto About cozycozy Legal notice Contact cozycozy magazine copyright © 2019 - 2023 cozycozy.THE MOST WELL-ESTABLISHED ferry services in Boston Harbor are on the chopping block - deemed “non-essential” by the MBTA and proposed for elimination as a cost saving measure to the MBTA’s Fiscal Management Control Board (FMCB).

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