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Published: December, 2000 Bay Area ferry services have played a long and historic role in the development of the region, at one time constituting the greatest water transit system in the world. From the Gold Rush until the completion of the Bay and Golden Gate Bridges, ferries provided the only transportation across the Bay. The […]

Published: December, 2000 In another installment of our ongoing coverage of the two new ferryboats destined for San Francisco Bay currently under construction at Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Bay Crossings recently checked in with Project Manager Happy (I kid you not) Richards. Well, Happy, wow’s it going with our new boats? It’s going swell. We’re […]

Published: December, 2000 Riders vie for best of class.  Here's first up.

By F. Weston Starratt, P.E. Published: December, 2000 Talk to Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey, and you become convinced that the North Bay’s original transportation hub will become the area’s future transportation hub. Kinsey envisions a "world class transit center" at Point San Quentin, with » High-speed ferries to San Francisco and destinations throughout the […]

Published: November, 2000 The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), has honored four Seattle area engineers with the prestigious Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane Award for the outstanding technical paper of the past year. In its annual convention held in Vancouver British Columbia from 4-8 October, the Society recognized the work of Stanley […]

Published: November, 2000 Bay Crossings welcomes this delightful contribution from Syvlia Plapinger. Ms. Plapinger has been published in many notable publications and lives in New York City. We were very tired, we were very merry – We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. With these lines, Edna St. Vincent Millay introduced […]

Published: November, 2000 One of my predecessors said that the most important word in the agency name is "AND". His point was that BCDC is a management agency – not just a single purpose environmental protection agency and not just a single purpose economic development agency. What BCDC does is balance these two objectives and […]

Kevin Shelley   Published: November, 2000 PROFESSION: California State Legislature, Assembly Majority Leader FERRY COMMUTER? No, well occasionally IF I HAD A FREE DAY, I’D SPEND IT: I spend it with my wife. MY PROUDEST MOMENT WAS: When my wife Dominique agreed to marry me. PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THEY KNEW: I worked myself […]

Bay Crossings recently sat down with Captain Maggie McDonogh, Owner/Proprietor of the Angel Island Ferry Company.   Published: November, 2000 What’s it like running the Angel Island Ferry? Walk us through an average day. On an average day, we’re dealing with several hundred people, all with a variety of needs and interests going to and […]

Published: November, 2000 Russell Long has been a thorn in the side, or as he would prefer, prick to the conscience, of ferry system planners for quite a while, developing a national reputation as a maritime environmental activist in the process. Bay Crossings sat down with Russell to get the lowdown. How’s the marine environment […]