The fate of The Woodlands’ Waterway cruisers is uncertain after The Woodlands Township board of directors voted to cease funding for the program’s operation during its budget meeting Aug. 5. By doing so, the decision on whether to retain the boats has fallen to the township’s Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The CVB will need to find alternate funding or move forward with alternative uses for the Waterway boathouse that better suit the community’s needs, CVB President Nick Wolda said.
“It’s a topic of conversation that is really being discussed by our [CVB] board of directors,” he said. “There are differences of opinions on the [boats], like what the functions are, what they mean to The Woodlands and what they don’t mean.”
The 35-foot-long cruisers have ferried passengers along a 1.4-mile stretch of the Waterway since 2010 and were gifted to the township at a value of $800,000 from The Woodlands Development Company in 2011.
