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Status Report on the Berkeley Ferry Terminal Status Report on the Berkeley Ferry Terminal Berkeley Planning, Transportation and Berkeley Planning, Transportation and Waterfront Commissions Waterfront Commissions October 2009 October 2009 1

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Status Report on the Berkeley Ferry Terminal Status Report on the Berkeley Ferry Terminal

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Berkeley Planning, Transportation and Berkeley Planning, Transportation and Waterfront Commissions Waterfront Commissions October 2009 October 2009

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  • April 2006: Technical feasibility and

environmental analysis begun

  • March 2007: EIS scoping process with 300+

comments concerning 4 candidate sites

Project History Project History

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comments concerning 4 candidate sites

  • Sept. 2008: Draft EIR/EIS issued
  • April 2009: WETA Board selects Berkeley

Fishing Pier site as the “locally preferred alternative”

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Site Alternatives Site Alternatives

  • Site A: Between the Berkeley pier and Hs

Lordships restaurant

  • Site B: Inside the Berkeley Marina

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  • Site C: At the Berkeley/Albany border

near Gilman St.

  • Site D: In Albany at the foot of Buchanan

St.

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Site Site Alternatives Alternatives

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SEAWALL DRIVE

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  • Environmentally superior site
  • Shortest travel time over the water

Why the Fishing Pier Why the Fishing Pier Site Was Selected Site Was Selected

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  • This site has the best local bus service
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Site Location Overview Site Location Overview

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Benefits of the Berkeley Ferry Benefits of the Berkeley Ferry

  • Provide mass transit alternative that will help manage

increasing regional congestion

  • Commuter and recreational convenience – serve the

growing west side of Berkeley and its employment and

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growing west side of Berkeley and its employment and population centers

  • Important emergency/disaster recovery route (Terminal

to be built to “essentials structures” standards)

  • Increased patronage for Berkeley businesses and

visitors to the waterfront

  • Berkeley and Marina icon – architectural gateway to the

City of Berkeley

  • Enhancements to the Bay Trail
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Berkeley Ferry Design Berkeley Ferry Design Considerations Considerations

  • Berkeley service has one of the highest

ridership potentials of all WETA expansion services

  • Year 2025 ridership of 1716
  • Year 2025 ridership of 1716
  • Need parking for 387 patron autos
  • Transit connectivity is important

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  • Parking impacts including impacts to the existing

leasehold parking lot for HS Lordships

  • Interrelationship with the Bay Trail

Comments on the Impacts Comments on the Impacts

  • f the Berkeley Service
  • f the Berkeley Service
  • Concerns about impacts to windsurfers
  • Ferry and feeder bus service coordination
  • Costs, relative to BART and potential financial

impacts on the City

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Parking Concept Site Plan Parking Concept Site Plan

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Results of Parking Study Results of Parking Study

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Attended Parking Concept Attended Parking Concept

  • 1 attendants per 30 +/- cars
  • Professional Contractor: Central Parking Co. for

Ashby and Pleasant Hill to run the program

  • Attendants stage cars based on stated pick-up
  • Attendants stage cars based on stated pick-up

times

  • Operators call/text message when attended

parking patrons board the ferry

  • Performance standards: no more than an 8

minute wait for your car

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Ferry Terminal Conceptual Design Ferry Terminal Conceptual Design

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Parking Lot Concept Cross Section Parking Lot Concept Cross Section

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Artist’s Rendering of Terminal Concept Artist’s Rendering of Terminal Concept

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Addressing Environmental Impacts Addressing Environmental Impacts

  • All ferry patron parking accommodated at the

reconfigured lot

  • HS Lordships parking is preserved
  • Bay Trail included

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  • All public access parking retained
  • Terminal includes bus loading zone
  • Initial discussion with AC about feeder service
  • No City contributions to the project are expected
  • r planned for.
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Ongoing Actions and Next Steps Ongoing Actions and Next Steps

  • WETA staff has met with concerned citizens,

Waterfront Commissioners, city leaders and staff

  • Joint discussions with HS Lordship management
  • Presentations to Planning, Transportation and

Waterfront Commissions in October 2009

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Waterfront Commissions in October 2009

  • City Council meeting of November 17
  • Preliminary and final design once EIS/EIR is

certified

  • Secure the remaining funding needed to build

the project and ferry vessels

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Completing the EIR/EIS Completing the EIR/EIS

  • City of Berkeley approval for the project
  • Draft Final being written
  • FTA review and approval before public outreach

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  • FTA review and approval before public outreach
  • 30 day public review period
  • WETA Board adoption, FTA “record of decision”
  • All this is expected by early 2010
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watertransit.org

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Fare Revenue Operating Expense Operating Subsidy Recovery Ratio Berkeley to SF2 4.00 12.62 8.62 31.7% Bus/Rail AC Transit 0.80 4.40 3.60 18.2% BART 2.70 4.20 1.50 64.3% Caltrain 3.50 7.70 4.20 45.5%

Fare Revenue, Operating Expense, and Operating Subsidy per Unlinked Passenger Trip1

Caltrain 3.50 7.70 4.20 45.5% Ferry GG Ferry 5.00 11.00 6.00 45.5% BayLink 10.40 15.5 5.10 67.1% Alameda/Oakland 4.50 9.2 4.70 48.9%

1All data, except Berkeley to SF, compiled from National Transportation Database RY 2008

Data Tables, "T27_Service_Ratios" and "T26_Pass_Fare_Recovery_Ratio".

2Berkeley to SF data compiled based on 2014 ridership and operating cost projections.