Wednesday marked the first day of the free shuttle's two-year pilot, which hopes to assess demand for an alternative route across the Oakland Estuary.
When the bright yellow water shuttle approached the dock near Jack London Square in Oakland on Wednesday morning, there were a few groans from the crowd onshore. They had expected to be the first riders on the new ferry service between Oakland and Alameda . But when the boat arrived, it was already brimming with passengers from Alameda —an 'off-the-books' journey for people who had brought the project to fruition, as one Alameda official put it. 'That was less than 10 minutes.
Finding a way to facilitate these types of trips has been a 20-year project for McGuire and the other Alameda officials who spearheaded the water shuttle. Alameda had a previous ferry across the estuary for several years in the early 2000s. But when it ceased service, it left just the Posey Tube, with its narrow bike lanes and exhaust fumes, as the only route to access the northern half of Alameda for pedestrians and bicyclists.
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