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Published: October, 2001 Dear Editor: I think folks in the bay are a long way from a solar powered ferry. Why not just pour the biodiesel in the old smoker and have the problem done with tomorrow? Run it with 40% biodiesel/60%petrodiesel and she will run clean and smooth. John B. Wathen Regional Director Maine […]

Published: October, 2001 Not Flying? Take the ferry to Sausalito

By Bill Coolidge  Published: September, 2001 A seagull meanders, about tree level around the outskirts of the grassy playfield. Blown off course by the northerly wind coming out of the estuary or just hanging around the green dumpster behind the fenced batters’ cage? My attention, though, is on the white spot rising up above the […]

By Rob Franco, Executive Director of the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce  Published: September, 2001 THE FUN NEVER STOPS! You can have fun in Sausalito without having to do anything. Just sitting on the deck of one of Sausalito’s fine restaurants or cafes, looking out at the water or across the Bay at San Francisco is […]

Published: September, 2001 Starting in mid September, the WTA will survey 2000 ferry riders to learn more about their attitudes and preferences. A market research firm will distribute and collect the on-board surveys, which will cover all ferry routes in the Bay. "Ferry riders can influence what the future system will look like by taking […]

Published: September, 2001 Well, actually I have been the President for over a year, but I have been the President with money for only about 7 or 8 months. That’s because our budget was vetoed in June of last year and we only reacquired our right to the $12 million appropriation at the end of […]

Published: September, 2001 I am a local guy. I went to high school down the Peninsula. I went to Cal, both undergraduate and graduate school. When I got out of Cal, I went to work for the Kaiser company in Oakland, worked for them for 7 years and then following one of my favorite guys […]

Published: September, 2001 Fair to say that you love Fisherman’s Wharf? I love the waterfront, but I don’t love Fishermen’s Wharf. I remember walking down here with my grandfather when it was a working wharf. Now it has become primarily tourist based and we are losing the working waterfront. I was concerned enough about it […]

Published: September, 2001   September, Labor Day, and the dedication of Harry Bridges Plaza at the foot of San Francisco’s Market Street: three good reasons to show up on a Saturday morning in August and watch the goings-on from the corner of Mission and the Embarcadero My perch is the sidewalk in front of the […]

Published: September, 2001 Polyester 69 PROFESSION: Fishermen’s Wharf street performer FERRY COMMUTER:.Uh, no. IF I HAD A FREE DAY, I’D SPEND IT: Riding a ferry to Sausalito, if they’d let me. FAVORITE BOOK: The Bible. HOW I WOULD LIKE TO BE REMEMBERED: As a great entertainer. PET PEEVE: Triple meters. MY MOTTO: Open up! HOBBIES: […]