Published: May, 2001 The San Francisco Bar Pilots, who have been safely guiding ships through San Francisco Bay since 1835, will soon christen two new 2000 Class Station Boats. These vessels, the San Francisco and the California, are outfitted with the latest technology, including environmentally friendly low exhaust emission engines and oil water separators. The […]
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Working Waterfront
Scott Bodensteiner Published: May, 2001 I was a biology major and a lot of my professors spent a lot of time talking about environmental issues. I went to work for an environmental group in Sacramento, the Sacramento Valley Toxics Campaign. that tried to raise money to help combat some of these problems. Now I work […]
Bay Crossings Reader of the Month
Published: May, 2001 Tucker, the Alameda/Oakland Ferry Celebrity Dog PROFESSION: The Minister of Napping at the Design Bunch, an advertising/graphic design firm in San Francisco FERRY COMMUTER: You bet…daily for the last 9 years on the Alameda/Oakland ferry. PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THEY KNEW: I don’t eat homework and I all buy all my […]
NATIONAL CLEAN BOATING EVENT TO BE HELD IN SAN FRANCISCO June 9
Published: May, 2001 The Marine Environmental Education Foundation (MEEF), a group committed to clean boating practices through National Clean Boating Campaign (NCBC), will hold its fourth-annual NCBC event Saturday, June 9, 2001, from 10 am to 4 pm, at San Francisco‘s Hyde Street Pier near Fisherman’s Wharf. The free celebration features activities, demonstrations, tours and […]
Letters to the Editor Sex Sells
Published: May, 2001 Editors note: Last month, we printed two of the many letters we received in response to our March cover story "Here Comes the Sun" featuring Dr. Robert Dane, inventor of the new solar ferry. The common theme of all the letters we received, including one from a self-styled "Fairy for Ferries", had […]
The Tiburon Issue
Published: May, 2001 Tiburon’s not hard to love, set like it is on the tip of the Tiburon Peninsula overlooking Raccoon Strait, Angel Island, and San Francisco. The surprise here is the strong sense of place. The town is very much lived in by its residents, and the experience is very real. Many people come […]
Setting Sail
New WTA Chief Tom Bertken Lets Us Know Where He’s Coming From – and Where’s He’s Taking Us Published: May, 2001 What made you want to run the WTA? For most of my long professional career I have been involved in building transportation facilities here in the Bay Area to provide better mobility to the […]
Ferries Powered by French Fry Oils?
By Teri Shore Published: May, 2001 It sounds crazy, but before long the Bay Area’s ferries could be running on veggie-power. Local ferry operators are taking notice of a clean, alternative fuel made from leftover restaurant grease and vegetable oils. The up-and-coming fuel is known simply as bio-diesel. Not only is it non-toxic, low polluting […]
A Picaresque History of the Port of Oakland
Published: May, 2001 During the Depression, make-work programs put many artists and writers to work on projects like the Federal Theater Project (Orsen Wells, amongst others). A look at any one of the many WPA murals in Post Offices across the country gives an appreciation for the kind of strong, socially conscious talent that was […]
Treasure Island Seeks Mitigation Funds from Caltrans to Start Ferry Service to and From Treasure Island
Published: April, 2001 San Francisco City officials, anticipating traffic chaos as a result of the Bay Bridge retrofit, are trying to persuade Caltrans to fund stopgap ferry service connecting Treasure Island to San Francisco. Access to and from Treasure and Yerba Buena islands is severely constrained by very limited capacity on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay […]