Our cover of covers this month includes at least one cover from all 20 years since the publication debuted in 2000. Photo credits below are listed from left to right by row. All photos marked JW are by Joel Williams. Top Row: N/A, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Maggie Gosselin; Row 2: Patrick Roddie, Susan Schwartz, […]
BY JOEL WILLIAMS In January 2000, Bay Crossings founder Bobby Winston and Inlandboatmen’s Union leader Marina Secchitano personally handed out the first issue of Bay Crossings to ferryboat commuters as they boarded and disembarked from the boats at the San Francisco Ferry Building. Just two months earlier, Governor Gray Davis had signed into law a […]
BC STAFF REPORT Five years ago, as crews worked day and night to dismantle the massive former Eastern span of the Bay Bridge, artists and designers across California expressed their desire to creatively repurpose pieces of the old bridge steel. The Oakland Museum of California stepped in and partnered with the Toll Bridge Program Oversight […]
BY SEJAL CHOKSI-CHUGH I’ve heard locals describe a film of black dust on cars, windowsills and playground structures in the City of Richmond. Sadly, it’s often coal dust. And it’s toxic—linked to asthma, heart disease, and other illnesses. When it rains, that toxic dust can get washed and blown into San Francisco Bay, where it […]
BC STAFF REPORT Last month, the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) Board of Directors authorized the agency to exercise a $14.8 million build option for a second 300-passenger high-speed ferry from Mavrik Marine to support the growth of San Francisco Bay Ferry service. Mavrik Marine is currently building Dorado, a versatile […]
BC STAFF REPORT In order to meet growing passenger demand, the WETA Board of Directors approved a major 2020 revamp of San Francisco Bay Ferry’s Alameda and Oakland service at its December meeting. The plan, which is expected to take effect in mid-2020, will shift primary commute service in Alameda to a new ferry terminal […]
BY BILL PICTURE I have to admit my own carbon footprint wasn’t as light as it could have been back in 2007, when Bay Crossings asked me to contribute a monthly feature about environmental sustainability for a new section it planned to call the “Green Pages.” Sure, I recycled. I’m pretty sure my flatmates and […]
BY MATT LARSON In every issue of Bay Crossings since November 2011—that’s nearly 100 consecutive months—we have featured a different captain, deckhand, bartender, operations supervisor, port engineer or administrative assistant. Basically anyone working in the San Francisco Bay Area’s thriving ferry industry is fair game to be our next subject. We’re so grateful for everyone […]
BY PAUL DUCLOS Bay Area ferry riders seeking an exotic operatic adventure are in luck when the Empress Theatre in Vallejo hosts a night of recitals featuring three young and promising superstars on the first day of February. Headlined Three Tenors! The Next Generation, the one-night concert showcases the remarkable voices of Pene Pati, Alex […]
BC STAFF REPORTAs of December 2019, the region’s newest passenger rail service, Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART), now makes a complete connection to the Larkspur Ferry Terminal, opening up a critical transit gateway to the rest of the Bay Area. Since 2017, SMART has helped passengers avoid the weekday highway 101 gridlock from highway 37 […]