By Guy Span Published: June, 2002 Sitting at the foot of Market Street is our own, homegrown icon – the Ferry Building. A rare survivor of the big quake and fire of 1906, she proudly reminds us of the time of Empire, when ferryboats brought some 45 million a people a year into the city, […]
A Time to Celebrate Published: September, 2002 Three years ago this January, on a blustery morning on the San Francisco Ferry Building docks, Inlandboatmen Union (IBU) deckhands, led by their indomitable Regional Director Marina Secchitano, joined me to hand out the first copies of Bay Crossings to groggy ferryriders arriving on the first boat. The […]
By Matt Larson Published: August, 2015 For the past nine years, Rob Barley has been a vessel master (in other words, a captain) for Golden Gate Ferry. For the past several months, he’s also been the ferry line’s safety, security and training coordinator. You can generally find him at the helm on the early morning […]
