Published: October, 2003 On Sunday, November 2, 2003, the Golden Gate Transit (GGT) bus system will be restructured resulting in a 30% reduction of service. To prepare customers for this significant change, GGT will host customized trip planning sessions to assist customers in finding the best way to travel on GGT. Informational materials for each […]
Author: BAY CROSSINGS STAFF REPORT
Saving the "Silver Slug"
Published: October, 2003 What is it about ancient ferryboats that inspire people to save them, or try at least? Notable successes include the Eureka, which is stuffed and mounted like a trophy fish at the Hyde St. Maritime Museum. Or the Berkeley, posing as a one-boat museum in San Diego with her boiler cut in […]
Golden Gate Bridge District Works to Stem Red Ink
Published: October, 2003 * Phase 1 service reductions saving nearly $2 million annually were implemented in March 2003. ·Reductions in work force, saving over $2 million, were made in April 2003, with a second round to follow this fall. * In May 2003, the Board approved a 30 to 40 percent fare increase for commute […]
Bay Crossings and Fleet of New Businesses Dock at Ferry Building
Published: October, 2003 Call it your home-based business that makes good. What started out of the house of entrepreneur Bobby Winston — and then moved aboard the good sailboat Belle Chere — has now morphed into Bay Crossings’ Ferry Tickets Shop. Now one of the many new businesses at San Francisco’s Ferry Building, the store […]
Port of Call Walvis Bay, Namibia
Published: October, 2003 In the future, there will be two kinds of ports. The first are primarily major US harbors that will be likely targets for a small-scale nuclear attack via shipping container. These include New York, Chesapeake Bay, and even San Francisco. The second, of course, will be no-nuke potential ports. The timetables for […]
Bay Crossings On the Cover
Published: October, 2003 Quiet had sunk in through the night. Sawdust stilled, power saws turned off, old fashioned wooden sliding doors closed to the public, we arrived one by one for the 9:00a.m. class held at the Mariner Museum Boatshop. A class on rigging and sailing old fashioned downeast wooden sailboats. Welcome, my name is […]
Bay Crossings Community Calendar
Published: October, 2003 Features Master Glass Blower Joseph Morel. Joseph joins Arts Benicia for the first time in offering Glass Blowing Classes. The owner of Zellique Art Glass has been teaching private lessons in his Benicia Studio and College level workshops at Chico State for the past six years. He has joined other talented Benicia […]
Ferry Building Marketplace Harvest Festival Set for October 23- 26
Published: October, 2003 The Ferry Building Marketplace is steadily adding new shops, lending momentum to what has quickly become one of San Francisco’s favorite destinations for food shopping, eating and socializing . Just announced: from October 23-26 the first of a series of seasonal public festivals . First up: the Harvest Festival. Thursday, October 23, […]
Derek M Baylis Sails SF
Published: October, 2003 Tom Wylie and crew are taking people, primarily from the education community, sailing on San Francisco Bay. Currently based at the Berkeley Marina fuel dock, the vessel is available for demo sails and contracted outings for interested parties. The original and primary purpose of the vessel since its conception by boat designer […]
Port of Call: Dubrovnik, Croatia (the former Yugoslavia)
Published: September, 2003 Let’s play a waterfront game called Good Idea/Bad Idea. The concept is simple; a situation is presented and you, the reader, get to make the call. In certain situations, this not-so-portentous port-obsessed author will help with a questioning hint. For example, the managers of the Port of San Francisco might say, […]