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.
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).
