The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) announced today that it will resume San Francisco Bay Ferry service on the Richmond route and double service on the Vallejo route beginning on Monday, June 15. WETA has also adopted a six-point Passenger and Crew Safety Plan, formalizing safety measures put into effect to […]
The Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) recently acknowledged that some essential workers continue to ride San Francisco Bay Ferry regularly and would like to purchase a June monthly pass for the Vallejo route. To accommodate these needs, WETA announced that they will be issuing June monthly passes for the Vallejo route and they can be […]
Effective immediately, Golden Gate Ferry has made additional Larkspur weekday schedule changes to better match service to current ridership levels, save fuel costs and reduce emissions, and help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. See complete Golden Gate Ferry timetables below, in effect until further notice: LARKSPUR – SAN FRANCISCO (effective May 12, 2020) Weekday […]
The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) recently announced that it has been awarded a $9 million grant from the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) to build an all-electric passenger ferry to serve the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco. The grant, awarded through CalSTA’s Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program, will […]
New public health department orders in local counties require masks or face coverings to be worn in public spaces beginning Wednesday, April 22. Public transit is included in these orders and all passengers will be required to wear masks or face coverings while boarding and on board the ferry vessels until further notice. Passengers […]
In San Francisco, a city whose economy is inextricably linked to the 25 million people who visit it each year, the owners of tourism-oriented businesses (and their employees) are anxiously waiting to see what kind of lingering effect the pandemic might have on consumer behavior and spending. Meanwhile, transit agencies are trying to make sense […]
A message from San Francisco Bay Ferry on March 31, 2020: Hello Vallejo ferry commuters. We hope you’re safe and healthy. We wanted to give you a couple of updates on a few items: Our crews are continuing to engage in thorough cleaning of the ferries. This includes nightly disinfectant fogging of vessels in service. […]
UPDATE AS OF FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2020 In response to extremely low ridership and a region-wide effort to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, Golden Gate Ferry will be making additional service adjustments. The ferry schedule changes go into effect Monday, March 23 (all weekend service has been suspended). Complete listings of impacted bus […]
The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) announced that its San Francisco Bay Ferry service will be temporarily reduced in response to regional efforts to reduce the spread of coronavirus. All routes are affected by these changes, which go into effect on Tuesday, March 17, and will remain in place through at […]
In response to COVID-19 and a six-county “shelter in place” public health order issued Monday, Golden Gate Transit and Golden Gate Ferry will adjust service effective Tuesday, March 17. The adjusted schedules will be in place until further notice. The public health order includes Marin and San Francisco counties, both of which are served by […]