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Published: March, 2005 Bikestation ® had a party Februry 24th, and cyclists, commuters, supporters, and enthusiasts reveled with joy at the Grand Opening of its new Bay Area location at the Embarcadero BART station. This event, featuring many highlights of what Bikestation has to offer (such as a bike retail section, repair shop, and bicycle […]

Published: March, 2005 Initial Phase Begins Another Component of Maritime Air Quality Mitigation Program The Port of Oakland has launched a program designed to cut emissions from trucks that operate at Port of Oakland Maritime facilities. As part of its Vision 2000 maritime expansion program, the Port has secured $1.5 million in grant funds to […]

Published: March, 2005 The Port of Oakland announced that it has received important presidential support for the continuation of its channel-deepening efforts. The President’s Fiscal Year 2005-2006 budget, released Monday, February 7, 2005, includes $48 million for the Oakland Harbor Navigation Improvement Project (the -50 Foot Project); this amount is the most ever included in […]

Published: March, 2005 “In response to perhaps the greatest human catastrophe of our time, the Port of Oakland launched a Tsunami Relief Matching-contribution Campaign,” said Patricia A. Scates, president of the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners. Within 30 days from the start of the campaign, Port of Oakland employees donated a total of $22,013 to […]

Published: March, 2005 In your backyard–or your mom’s or a friend’s–maybe there’s a small apple tree and a sandbox, a couple of robins pulling at worms: the typical mini-haven of the individual family. But imagine one day waking up to find a house-sized semi squatting there, squishing the swing set as the huge motor surges […]

Published: March, 2005 On February 8, the San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority (WTA) hosted transit managers from South San Francisco and Brisbane to lunch at Dominic’s at the Oyster Point banquet facility in South San Francisco. Nearly fifty guests, spanning small businesses to corporations, policy-makers, and city planners, including representatives from biotech and […]

By Steve Priske  Published: March, 2005 If one follows the axiom that, “the last built of a thing is generally the best built of a thing,” then the finest tall ships ever built may have been built on the West Coast, and were home-ported at San Francisco.History books tell us that in 1849, when the […]

As we approach 5:05 a.m. on the 18th of April, 99 years since the Great Quake of 1906, we ask, “Will San Francisco Have Another 1906 Earthquake?” The answer is definitely “Yes.” Is the City prepared for a major earthquake? Unfortunately, the answer must be “No.” Can the City develop a plan to save lives […]

Published: February, 2005 Once more, the Bay Area wine scene astounds us, just like Sideways. So many people asked us if we had seen the movie, that we were forced to go and totally enjoy ourselves. It’s the new movie about making one’s way through a week of wine tasting as other forces intrude upon […]