A small marina owner in the northern San Francisco Bay Area has received $20 million to initiate ferry service -- all beneath the radar of the Bay Area Water Transit Authority.
The operator of a small marina managed a funding coup to get a large sum of public money to facilitate the operation of ferry service on a route that had been previously studied and shelved by the local transit authority.
"...rather than doling out the money to a public agency, the $20 million is being handed to a commercial company, Berg Holdings, which employs eight people and operates the sleepy Port Sonoma Marina. What's more, the money was granted without the backing of the Bay Area Water Transit Authority, the regional public agency created a couple of years back supposedly to develop a comprehensive ferry system for the entire Bay Area."
Thanks to David Peterson
FULL STORY: Small, private marina hauls in $20 million catch in transit funding
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