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Letters tothe Editor
Published: April, 2002 Dear Editor: I enjoyed reading the March issue, particularly the article on Angel Island and its military history, which brought to mind some family history of my own. A little over 100 years ago, my father received his discharge papers on Angel Island from the U.S. Army after a three-year hitch in […]
Working Waterfront In their own words
Susan McAnanama Published: April, 2002 V.I.S.I.T. Center Manager Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island The best way to see the Statue of Liberty is how the immigrants saw it, from a boat and from a distance. You get the feeling it gets much larger right in front of you. From afar, it […]
WTA To Design World’s First Zero-Emission Commuter Ferry
Published: April, 2002 The Water Transit Authority (WTA) announced the design of the world’s first passenger ferry powered with zero emission fuel cell technology. Specifically, with the $100,000 Federal grant the WTA sought and obtained, the agency will be enabled to design a futuristic zero emission boat for service linking Treasure Island with the East […]
HERE’S YOUR CHANCE… VOLUNTEER FOR A UNIVERSAL TRANSIT FARE CARD
Published: April, 2002 More plastic? Yes, but this single card will provide rides on AC Transit, BART, Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, Muni, and VTA without having to pay each time you board a bus, ferry, or train. Thanks to the efforts of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the Bay Area will be the first region […]
The Smell of Fear
By David Fear Published: April, 2002 Editor’s Note: This month we welcome David Fear as a regular columnist. Mr. Fear is an up-and-comer in the world of San Francisco letters, swimming steadily upstream with regular appearances in the alternative press and beyond. We’ve asked him to ruminate for us on films, music, modern culture generally […]
Manly Tugboats of San Francisco
By Guy Span Published: April, 2002 Although the era is almost ended, this commentator feels compelled to report on the end of empire – the last days of manly tugboats on San Francisco Bay. As a young pup, when this observer first arrived as a tourist (and all new arrivals here are “tourists”), one couldn’t […]
Bay CrossingsReader of the Month
Published: April, 2002 Dorothy Dixon People would be surprised if they knew what about you? That even though I drove for years, I never had a license! If you had a free day, how would you spend it? Going to Paris for lunch. Your proudest moment? When I was working for Roos Atkins, when I […]
San Francisco Ferry Terminal Update
Published: April, 2002 The Jewel of San Francisco’s Waterfront, the elegant new San Francisco Ferry Terminal, is about to shine even brighter. Since January of this year, ferryriders from Alameda and Oakland commuting to San Francisco have landed at the first of many new “floats” set to open on the water side of the Ferry […]
METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION AWARDS MORE THAN A HALF-MILLION DOLLARS TO PROMOTE LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
Published: April, 2002 The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) has approved ten grants totaling more than one half million dollars to community-oriented transportation projects in San Francisco, Fairfield, Martinez, Napa, Oakland, San Jose, San Leandro, San Pablo, and South San Francisco. MTC established the program in 1998 to provide incentives for pedestrian- and transit-oriented developments and […]