Water taxi
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A water taxi or a water bus is a boat used to provide public or private transport, usually, but not always, in an urban environment.[1] Service may be scheduled with multiple stops, operating in a similar manner to a bus, or on demand to many locations, operating in a similar manner to a taxi. A boat service shuttling between two points would normally be described as a ferry rather than a water bus or taxi.
The term water taxi is usually confined to a boat operating on demand, and water bus to a boat operating on a schedule. In North American usage, the terms are roughly synonymous.
The earliest water taxi service was recorded as operating around the area that became Manchester, England.[citation needed]
Locations
Cities and other places operating water buses and/or taxis include:
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- Alapuzha Water Taxi[2][3]
- Auckland[4]
- Bahrain
- Bangkok
- Bremen
- Brisbane
- Brunei
- Buenos Aires, Tigre
- Cap-Haïtien, Haiti (at Labadee beach)
- Cape Town
- Caye Caulker
- Davao City
- Davao water taxi service
- Dhaka
- Buriganga River water bus
- Hatirjheel water taxi
- Dubai
- Galápagos Islands
- Guangzhou, China
- Halifax Regional Municipality
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Hong Kong
- Cheung Chau, Chi Ma Wan, Peng Chau, Silvermine Bay
- Sun Ferry
- Sha Lo Wan, Tai O, Tuen Mun, Tung Chung (Urmston Road, Hong Kong)
- Istanbul[5]
- Karachi
- Kobe
- Kochi
- Lorient
- Malta
- Manila
- Mumbai (Catamarans and ferries)
- New Zealand[6]
- Niigata
- Nur-Sultan
- Osaka
- Panama
- San Martín de los Andes[7]
- Seoul[8]
- Shizuoka
- Singapore (Singapore River)
- Sydney
- Timișoara
- Tokyo
- Toronto
- Trinidad
- Water Taxi Service, Port of Spain to San Fernando – service implemented in December 2008
- Trogir
- Victoria, British Columbia
- Vancouver
- Venice
- Walt Disney World[10]
- Wellington
- Winnipeg
- Xochimilco, Mexico City
- Yokohama
Europe
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- Amsterdam
- Antwerp
- Berlin (see: de:Fährverkehr in Berlin)
- Bordeaux
- Boats BatCub[11]
- Bristol
- Brussels
- Bucharest
- Budapest
- Bydgoszcz, Poland
- Cardiff
- Copenhagen
- Gdańsk
- Geneva
- Gothenburg
- Älvsnabben ferry
- Paddan[12]
- Hamburg
- Helsinki
- Hertford
- Kragerø and surrounding area, Norway
- Kristiansund, Norway
- Leeds
- Lisbon
- London
- Marseille
- Moscow
- Nantes
- Oslo
- Paris
- Potsdam, Germany[14]
- Rotterdam/Dordrecht[15]
- Saint Petersburg
- Aquabus[citation needed]
- Spalding (River Welland)
- Stockholm[16]
- Tallinn[17]
USA
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- Alexandria, Virginia
- Annapolis, Maryland
- Baltimore
- Boston[19]
- Charleston[20]
- Chicago
- Erie, Pennsylvania
- Fort Lauderdale
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Lake Ozark, Missouri[21]
- Laughlin, Nevada and Bullhead City, Arizona
- Long Beach, California
- National Harbor, Maryland
- New York City
- New Orleans - Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Mississippi River from mouth to Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Belle Chasse Marine, Port Ship Service, Crescent Ship Service and Weber Marine.
- Oklahoma City[22]
- Orlando, Florida
- Sacramento
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Tampa[23]
- Pittsburgh
- Plymouth
- Portland, Maine
- Quad Cities, Illinois/Iowa[24]
On demand water taxis are also commonly found in marinas, harbours and cottage areas, providing access to boats and waterfront properties that are not directly accessible by land.
Incidents
On March 6, 2004, a water taxi on the Seaport Taxi service operated by the Living Classrooms Foundation capsized during a storm on the Patapsco River, near Baltimore's Inner Harbor. A total of five passengers died in the accident, which the National Transportation Safety Board determined was caused by insufficient stability when the small pontoon-style vessel encountered strong winds and waves. The company no longer operates water taxi vessels in Baltimore harbor.[25]
See also
- Duffy-Herreshoff watertaxi
- Ferry, including hydrofoil, catamaran and hovercraft
- Klotok
- Moskvitch-class motorship - Soviet "water tramway"
- Pleasure barge
- Rower woman
- Ship's tender
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bricktown Water Taxi". Retrieved October 14, 2009.
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