Published: April, 2009 An officially-sanctioned Safety at Sea Seminar will be held at California Maritime Academy in Vallejo Saturday, April 11. The seminar will cover vital topics including first aid, rescue, emergency communications, firefighting, and weather. Any sailor planning an offshore voyage should attend one of these, said Michael Moradzadeh, Pacific Cup Yacht Club (PCYC) […]
Published: June, 2018 The Federal Transportation Administration (FTA) awarded WETA a $5 million 2017 Passenger Ferry Grant Program grant for the mid-life refurbishment of the M.V. Solano, a high-speed passenger vessel operating on WETA’s Vallejo/San Francisco route. The competitively awarded grant provides essential funding for this $13 million project that will enhance WETA’s regional […]
Published: July, 2003 Railroad passenger trains were in trouble years before they were nationalized. In 1950, the larger railroads operated some 147,511 passenger route miles. By 1968, that fell to 58,130. Operating losses were huge. On the famed California Zephyr domeliner service between Chicago and San Francisco losses, rose to $2.6 million in 1969 on […]
