By Wes Starratt, P.E. Published: March, 2003 Vallejo’s Fourth Ferry Awaits FundingYes, California’s budget crisis is affecting the Bay Area’s ferry system. The City of Vallejo’s Baylink Ferries has tentatively awarded a contract for the construction of its Ferry #4 to Dakota Industries of Anacortes, Washington. However, the contract cannot be finalized, since state funding […]
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Visiting a Unique San Francisco Winemaker By Dianne Boate and Robert Meyer Published: March, 2003 Did you know there is a winery at a pier on the Embarcadero? Tom Kehoe is the owner of the only winery in San Francisco, and he is the winemaker, the label designer, the sales rep, and the advertising department.Tom’s […]
Web-Based Transit Trip-Planner Serves Up Two-Millionth Itinerary
Published: February, 2003 Only a year and a half after its launch, the online transit trip-planner operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) has reached another major milestone: It has provided Bay Area travelers with two million personalized public transit itineraries. The milestone was reached on Dec. 29, 2002, only six months after the first […]
Very Beautiful Ferry Building on Cusp of Opening
Published: February, 2003 Drawings and images of San Francisco’s meticulously restored Ferry Building. This extraordinary structure, designed like a jewel and built like a giant, symbolizes a glorious past and beckons an exciting future for the Bay Area. Fifty million people a year crossed through its vaulted corridors before misguided policymakers ripped up a regional […]
Celtic Concert Series in Benicia
Published: February, 2003 On Saturday, February 22, at 8:00 p.m. at the Clocktower in Benicia (1187 Washington Street), the Benicia Historical Museum will present its second concert in their Celtic Concert Series 2003 featuring the Black Irish Band. The program will include music from the band’s new Maritime classics CD Into the Arms of the […]
Mayor Bev Revs up Support for Regional Plan
Published: February, 2003 Mayor Beverly Johnson practices law in her hometown, Alameda. In 1995, then-Mayor Ralph Appezzato appointed her to the Alameda Planning Board; she was elected to serve on the City Council four years later and was elected Mayor this past November. Mayor Johnson recently took time out of her busy schedule to talk […]
MTC Awards $500,000 in New Grants to Promote Livable Communities
Ten Bay Area Projects Selected Published: February, 2003 The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) recently approved ten new planning grants totaling $500,000 through its Transportation for Livable Communities (TLC) program to support community-oriented transportation projects in Brentwood, Colma/Daly City, Cordelia, Fremont, Healdsburg, Larkspur, Millbrae, Santa Rosa, Walnut Creek, and an unincorporated area of western Contra Costa […]
Rescue at Sea (or the Estuary, anyway)
Published: February, 2003 Horseplay aboard the Alameda/Oakland ferry Encinal would almost certainly have led to tragedy except for the alert response of regular rider Sheila James (center) and crewmembers (left to rigtht) Lead Deckhand Patrick Robles, Captain Andrew C. Miller, Brad Kopp, and Donald Berti. Ms. James was enjoying the view from the upper deck […]
Bay CrossingsBay Environment Cruise Ship Blues
Published: February, 2003 Despite cruise industry efforts to ban him from the airwaves, Cruise Ship Blues author Ross Klein is speaking out about the underside of the cruise industry across North America. Bluewater Network coordinated his San Francisco trip, booking him on major radio stations including KQED's FORUM and KCBS and important venues such as […]
Waterfront Mysteries
Published: February, 2003 Just a mile or so out of Alameda, you’ll find it…..there on Doolittle Drive, just before you get to Swan Way. It’s been there for years and years, or at least for the 27 years that I’ve lived here, but its origins have always been a mystery. My kids used to make […]