Contracts are expected by year's end for two new ferries slated to start running next year between South Boston, East Boston and Charlestown.
The city is pursuing the service as an alternate commuter route from Eastie and points north to South Boston's Seaport District, said Richard McGuinness, the Boston Redevelopment Authority's deputy director for waterfront planning.
The route will run between a Fan Pier dock completed in June in the Seaport District, a Lewis Mall terminal in East Boston that Massport will restore and Pier 3 in the Charlestown Navy Yard. A private operator will provide service on BRA-owned ferries funded by a $1.28 million federal grant and $320,000 in city money.
It's needed for conventioneers and workers alike, Boston Harbor Association president Vivien Li said.
"When the Vertex building starts opening at the end of this year — and companies start populating other buildings — all of a sudden you're going to have thousands of new employees working at Fan Pier," she said.
The ferries, which will be subsidized by waterfront developers, are expected to cost $3 one-way.
"(Mayor Thomas M. Menino) wants to continue the excitement of what's happening in South Boston — the new development — to East Boston," McGuinness said. Eastie has 1,500 units of waterfront housing fully permitted, and the mayor hopes employees relocating to the Seaport District will see them as a great opportunity, he said.
Demand already is there and only will increase, said East Boston Chamber of Commerce President Diane Modica. "We have a lot of new professionals right now who I know would take that ferry," she said.
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