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Published: September, 2017 Sausalito Art Festival Spend this Labor Day weekend, September 2 to 4, at the 65th annual Sausalito Art Festival. One of the most anticipated festivals every year, this annual event features work from some of the best local and national artists for three days. You also get the chance to listen […]
Published: August, 2017 An event at the plaza across from San Francisco’s historic Ferry Building on June 28 marked the start of an ambitious five-city buildout spree for the GoBike bike share network. By Labor Day, Ford GoBike will offer 3,500 bicycles at 332 stations. And when fully installed next year, the program will […]
BY PATRICK BURNSON Published: August, 2017 The month of June was a record-setter at the Port of Oakland, as it handled the equivalent of 80,253 full 20-foot containers. That broke the previous all-time record of 78,326 containers set in June 2006. The port said June’s import volume increased 5.1 percent over the same […]
BY MATT LARSON Published: August, 2017 There was a time when John Gray rode the Golden Gate Ferry as a means of getting into the city, not thinking twice about what went on behind the helm. Now, as a project engineer of Golden Gate’s Ferry Division, he can tell you all about how your […]
BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH Published: August, 2017 Governor Jerry Brown claims to be an environmental leader. He recently basked in the international spotlight, proclaiming California as a climate leader. So it’s extremely disappointing that the governor continues to push for a massive, expensive water project that will irreparably harm San Francisco Bay’s environment. The […]
BY BOBBY WINSTON Published: August, 2017 Robert “Rocky” Dennis Harris, a longtime captain for the Harbor Bay Ferry, died Tuesday, June 27 after a long bout with lung cancer. He was 68 years old. A formidable mariner with outsized flinty personality to match, Rocky Harris led a life straight out of a Jimmy […]
BY BC STAFF Published: August, 2017 Following weeks of intensive advocacy in the Bay Area and Sacramento, the California Assembly’s Transportation Committee last month approved a bill that could lead to $4.2 billion in new funding to help ease the Bay Area’s traffic and commuter nightmare. The bill—SB 595, authored by state Sen. […]
BY CAPTAIN RAY Published: August, 2017 Why is coffee sometimes referred to as “a cup of joe”? Well, there’s a nautical story that many people think is the origin of the expression. Bear with me for a bit of history first… There is a custom in Hawai’i known as the pau hana drink. […]
BY BC STAFF Published: August, 2017 The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), global bike share leader Motivate, Ford Motor Company, regional officials and scores of community members joined forces on June 28 in San Francisco to launch the region’s new bike share system, Ford GoBike. The public celebration on the plaza across from San […]
BY BILL PICTURE Published: August, 2017 San Francisco’s Sunset and Richmond neighborhoods stepped up the city’s ever more comprehensive environmental protection efforts last month with a six-month pilot project aiming to eliminate tens of thousands of cigarette butts from the waste stream. Supervisors Katy Tang and Sandra Lee Fewer, along with the Surfrider Foundation […]