By Lydia N. Dalloway Published: February, 2004 To See What They Can See They come to Sausalito from as far away as Europe and as near as Novato, San Francisco, Tiburon, or, well, Sausalito, to Gulf of the Farallones Expeditions to catch a boat leaving the dock at 7 a.m. What compels a person to […]
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Published: February, 2004 The MTC has published its State of the System with facts figures and information about various services. You can get a free copy by e-mail at library@mtc.ca.gov. BART Takes Another Hit Looks like BART to San Jose won’t be happening anytime soon. Not only did it get unfunded by the governor’s draft […]
Rebuilding C. A. Thayer
By Wes Starratt, Senior Editor Published: February, 2004 A prized treasure of the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park and one of the last of the wooden schooners that carried lumber to build San Francisco,including many of its original structures and historic Victorian homes. Following the great earthquake of 1906, it was one of the […]
Bay Crossings Sound Asleep as Alameda Goes Dark on the Weekends
By Guy Span, S.D. Published: February, 2004 Alameda very quietly cancelled its only weekend service on the Alameda Oakland Ferry. It did so with a footnote in its timetable. A very small footnote. So small, in fact, that even on January 10th and 11th, riders were showing up for some runs. On Saturday, as many […]
I Really Do Work on the Waterfront
Published: February, 2004 Frank RileyVice President, Ship Clerks’ Association ILWU Local 34 Local 34 represents marine clerks and office clerical workers in the Northern California. We’re part of the Longshore Union, the ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union). Before I get to what I do, let’s list the various types of jobs on the docks. […]
Libations
By Dianne Boate and Robert Meyer Published: February, 2004 Whiskey: Part 1 We have in hand a small book purchased in North Carolina a number of years ago while visiting a cousin in Hendersonville. It is the size of a regular piece of typing paper folded over and has 64 pages. Its name is OLD […]
Projects Under the Knife
By Guy Span, S.D. Published: February, 2004 The draft budget offered by the new administration proposes the elimination of the Traffic Congestion Relief Program that had intended to use Proposition 42 and other funds to address traffic congestion issues. For the Bay Area, this will have a huge impact for a number of significant projects. […]
Bay CrossingsJournal Waiting for Isabel
By Mccabe Coolidge Published: February, 2004 Isabel has left. Hurricane season ended last month. But me, I wonder. I wonder about all that has been covered by water. Villages, fields, farms, old growth logs, docks, islands. And the memories. I wait for them to be uncovered, covered, an unending cycle. A few years ago, I […]
Highways Drive the Budget
By Guy Span, S.D. Published: February, 2004 Gray Davis was our boring, coin-operated governor. We ditched him in favor of a hyperthyroid celebrity who drives a Hummer. Actually, that’s not fair. Our new governator is personally responsible for Hummers being offered as civilian vehicles (with optional gun mounts). So what does he know about […]
Vallejo Ferry Construction Funds Cut
By Guy Span, S.D. Published: February, 2004 The cancellation of the Transportation Congestion Relief Fund as proposed by the governor’s draft budget would have only minimal effect upon Vallejo’s new ferry now under construction. That’s because the transit District, nimbly enough, managed to collect the vast bulk of the funds before the spigot was […]