Published: April, 2001 Bay Crossings came across a classified ad in Latitudes 38, a local yachting circular, advertising a ferry for sale. We called the number listed and got Brad Sears, owner of the ferry for sale, on the phone and asked him what’s up: What’s this ferry you’ve got for sale? It’s called the […]
Author: BAY CROSSINGS STAFF REPORT
WTA Staff On Board
Published: April, 2001 The newly organized San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority (WTA) has hired its first staff members. Here they are: Thomas G. Bertken, Chief Executive Officer Mr. Bertken has 46 years of experience in the planning, engineering, and management of major transportation projects, including rail, rapid transit, ports, airports, highways, roads, and […]
Treasure Island Seeks Mitigation Funds from Caltrans to Start Ferry Service to and From Treasure Island
Published: April, 2001 San Francisco City officials, anticipating traffic chaos as a result of the Bay Bridge retrofit, are trying to persuade Caltrans to fund stopgap ferry service connecting Treasure Island to San Francisco. Access to and from Treasure and Yerba Buena islands is severely constrained by very limited capacity on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay […]
Reader of the Month
Published: April, 2001 Angelo Servino PROFESSION: Chef/Owner, Servinos Restaurant, Tiburon FERRY COMMUTER? No, but I work next to a ferry terminal and whenever my friends come over from Italy I urge them to take one. The only cappuccino machines are in San Francisco. PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED IF THEY KNEW: I play bridge. IF I […]
Baseball’s Back on the Bay
Published: April, 2001 Monday, April 2, 2001 is opening day for the National League West Division Champions San Francisco Giants. Last year more than 3.3 million fans sold out every home game at the spectacular new Pacific Bell Park, and this year promises to be just as popular. So how are you going to get […]
Heroes and Goats
Published: April, 2001 What to say about a Bay Area transportation system that gets you to San Diego – over 500 miles away — faster than it can get you to Santa Rosa – just over 50 miles away (centerfold story "What’s Closer – San Diego or Santa Rosa)? About a system that was faster, […]
Letters to the Editor
Published: April, 2001 Dear Editor, Re: your interview with Port of Oakland Executive Director Chuck Foster: in spite of heavy competition from ports in southern California and in the Pacific Northwest, the Port of Oakland had its busiest year ever, with inbound traffic growing by 7.4 percent while export cargo grew by 3.6 percent. At […]
On our Cover
By Dr. Robert Dane Published: March, 2001 Before all this started, I was practicing as a country doctor about three hours south of Sydney on the coast in a town called Ulladulla, which in aboriginal means safe harbor. It boasts a very big fishing industry and a very safe port. It’s the place where a […]
Russian Imperial Treasures on Exhibit at the Presidio
Published: March, 2001 Thee Officers’ Club Exhibition Hall on the Presidio is the site of a unique collection of Russian art objects and artifacts in the Unseen Treasures: Imperial Russia and the New World exhibit opening March 18 through June 15. The exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Russian-American Company that funded Russian expansion […]
Bay Crossings InterviewChuck Foster Speaks His Mind
Published: March, 2001 That suggestion has surfaced on many occasions, not only in the Bay Area, but also around the country. There’s been resistance, and I think a lot of it is because airports are community assets, and communities have pride in their assets. So I think it will be an uphill battle to ever […]