San Francisco Bay Ferry’s Bay Breeze heads north on June 24, 2021 from San Francisco.
A $55 million federal grant will help complete the nation's first network of high-speed, electric ferry service for the Bay Area.
The grant, announced Friday by San Francisco Mayor London Breed, will go to the Port of San Francisco and San Francisco Bay Ferry to cut emissions from diesel-powered ferries linking downtown San Francisco, Oakland, Richmond, Vallejo and Alameda.
The money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Ports Program will support electrification infrastructure at the San Francisco Ferry Terminal; construction of a high-speed 400-passenger zero-emission vessel, and a new ferry terminal in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood.
"This funding will improve the quality of life for Bay Area working families by creating a cleaner, greener environment where reliable public transit reduces congestion and helps build equity and opportunity for all San Franciscans," U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said in a press release.
The project will make the San Francisco Bay Ferry the first zero-emissions fast ferry network in the country, Breed said.
San Francisco Bay Ferry carried 2.2 million passengers in 2023 on the nation's cleanest high-speed, high-capacity ferry fleet.
The grant includes funding to support a maritime workforce development program operated by the Working Waterfront Coalition that will train more than 200 apprentices, according to the mayor's office.
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