After an 11 year wait cruise ships can now use the Erie county port of call

[Saltwater60]

Only took 11 years so that money was well spent??? Now they want to use the port differently and it will cost more money to upgrade it? I can’t see too many cruise ships coming to Buffalo NY but hey the politicians always make such great decisions I trust their judgement fully.

https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/48288252/erie-county-approved-to-welcome-cruise-ships-in-port

 

[VietnamEraVet]

Only took 11 years so that money was well spent??? Now they want to use the port differently and it will cost more money to upgrade it? I can’t see too many cruise ships coming to Buffalo NY but hey the politicians always make such great decisions I trust their judgement fully.

https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/48288252/erie-county-approved-to-welcome-cruise-ships-in-port

This is Erie, PA, not Buffalo, NY. AKA "Dreary Erie", and "Mistake on the Lake"...

 

[Saltwater60]

This is Erie, PA, not Buffalo, NY. AKA "Dreary Erie", and "Mistake on the Lake"...

At least it’s not just NYS then.

 

[fresch]

Pa is being taken over by demonrats, just as corrupt as ny.

 

[VietnamEraVet]

Pa is being taken over by demonrats, just as corrupt as ny.

Sad, but true. I can't actually believe they elected that slug FetterLump (with his Socialist / Communist wife waiting for his demise in the wings), to a 6 year Senate Term. UFB!

 

[FP1201]

Only took 11 years so that money was well spent??? Now they want to use the port differently and it will cost more money to upgrade it? I can’t see too many cruise ships coming to Buffalo NY but hey the politicians always make such great decisions I trust their judgement fully.

https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/48288252/erie-county-approved-to-welcome-cruise-ships-in-port

OK, So Cruise Ships can Port in Erie...why would they want to?

 

[togmaster]

OK, So Cruise Ships can Port in Erie...why would they want to?

Because..,you know the thing.

 

[Acer-m14]

what the status on that Fast Ferry from Rochester NY to Canada .. LOL

 

[Acer-m14]

OK, So Cruise Ships can Port in Erie...why would they want to?

the Cruise ships director looks likes ..

 

[Saltwater60]

what the status on that Fast Ferry from Rochester NY to Canada .. LOL

I think that plan sank. It was a fortune and no one rode it. I think it only lasted two seasons but I heard it was making a comeback. I’m sure Covid squashed that.

 

[camper4lyfe]

I think that plan sank. It was a fortune and no one rode it. I think it only lasted two seasons but I heard it was making a comeback. I’m sure Covid squashed that.

It never even launched. They sold the ferry and the terminal is a ghost town.

Three major problems:
1) No one in Toronto wants to come to Rochester
2) The goal was to lean heavily on commercial traffic to cover costs: the Lake Ontario Parkway, the easiest way to get to the port, is closed to commercial traffic, so trucks would have to go through the city, which is too much of a pain in the ass, so it never happened.
3)Toronto didn't give a shit about it, so nothing was done on their end to have anything available for the ferry when it landed.

 

[Saltwater60]

It never even launched. They sold the ferry and the terminal is a ghost town.

Three major problems:
1) No one in Toronto wants to come to Rochester
2) The goal was to lean heavily on commercial traffic to cover costs: the Lake Ontario Parkway, the easiest way to get to the port, is closed to commercial traffic, so trucks would have to go through the city, which is too much of a pain in the ass, so it never happened.
3)Toronto didn't give a shit about it, so nothing was done on their end to have anything available for the ferry when it landed.

They did have the fast ferry up and running but then they tried a reboot and it never happened. I’m sure it was running since I looked into it until I saw the cost.

I didn’t know rochester city bought it though. I could have told them it would have dialed for just a few million dollars, just enough to leave NYS and buy a ranch somewhere.

15 years since Fast Ferry’s final local voyage: Timeline of Rochester’s doomed vessel

The relationship between Rochester and its Fast Ferry began on September 19, 2001 when City Council authorized an agreement with the company CATS to operate a ferry service from Rochester to Toront…

www.rochesterfirst.com

 

[dwa12479]

The Rochester Fast Ferry was Mayor Bill Johnsons wet dream that cost the city tens of millions of dollars. It was one of the most idiotic things he ever conceived. The boat schedule was setup to take people from here to Toronto and spend their $ out of the country

But the MOST egregious bit of incompetence was they leased the ferry terminal and land to Maplestar Development for $1 / year for 40 years, but then forgot to include a clause thst would void the contract if the ferry wasn't running. So all that prime waterfront was fucking wasted.

 

[Saltwater60]

The Rochester Fast Ferry was Mayor Bill Johnsons wet dream that cost the city tens of millions of dollars. It was one of the most idiotic things he ever conceived. The boat schedule was setup to take people from here to Toronto and spend their $ out of the country

But the MOST egregious bit of incompetence was they leased the ferry terminal and land to Maplestar Development for $1 / year for 40 years, but then forgot to include a clause thst would void the contract if the ferry wasn't running. So all that prime waterfront was fucking wasted.


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Sounds like my city. They sold a plot of land to a developer to build houses on it for the cost of the infrastructure and maintaining it for 25 years but then a demroid came into power and said oh this land is worth something why did the Republican just give it away? So he pulled that contract and 10 years later it’s still vacant land.

 

[togmaster]

The Rochester Fast Ferry was Mayor Bill Johnsons wet dream that cost the city tens of millions of dollars. It was one of the most idiotic things he ever conceived. The boat schedule was setup to take people from here to Toronto and spend their $ out of the country

But the MOST egregious bit of incompetence was they leased the ferry terminal and land to Maplestar Development for $1 / year for 40 years, but then forgot to include a clause thst would void the contract if the ferry wasn't running. So all that prime waterfront was fucking wasted.


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Nice marina.

 

[Acer-m14]

 

[spat]

I think that plan sank. It was a fortune and no one rode it. I think it only lasted two seasons but I heard it was making a comeback. I’m sure Covid squashed that.

The plan worked perfectly.

The people implementing it got rich, and the taxpayers got fleeced.

What did you *think* the plan was ?

 

[VietnamEraVet]

The linked article written about it is very well written, AND is both sad and hilarious! It really destroys Rochester as being a crime ridden shithole, with Wegman‘s being about the only remaining place to visit (even Cher went there, LOL).

And the embedded article written by Ms. Jan Wong of the Toronto Globe and Mail is even funnier, starting with the title “Ferry Bad Place”! Reminds me from when ordering Chinese Food in Fort Erie, Ontario and if you ordered shrimp fried rice, the waiters would ask you to confirm that you wanted an order of “shlimp flied lice”… Too funny.

 

[FP1201]

what the status on that Fast Ferry from Rochester NY to Canada .. LOL

Last thing I read on it was the cylinder heads on the Ferrie's engines had failed and it was going to cost Millions to replace them...that was a long time ago.

 

[dwa12479]

Last thing I read on it was the cylinder heads on the Ferrie's engines had failed and it was going to cost Millions to replace them...that was a long time ago.

It got sold to a European company and ended up running somewhere in the Mediterranean.

 

[dwa12479]

Sure as hell is. Imagine being the guy who gets to lease it from the City of Rochester for $1/year. Talk about making some bank...