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 […]
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Bay Crossings Bay Environment
By Teri Shore Bluewater Network Published: April, 2001 Ferry riders were thrilled to recognize the dark hulking form and unmistakable spouting of a gray whale on the cruise from Oakland into San Francisco one February morning. How many people get to watch whales on their way to the office? More California gray whales than ever […]
New $30 Million Terminal for Hudson River Ferries
Published: April, 2001 New Jersey Transit said yesterday that it would spend $30 million to build a new ferry terminal in Weehawken to help handle the growing commuter traffic across the Hudson River. The agency will grant a 32-year lease of the new terminal to NY Waterway, a pirvately owned commuter ferry operate that carries […]
Bay Crossings Bus Rider’s Journal
By Steve Geller Published: April, 2001 Steve Geller works as a software engineer for UC Berkeley Space Science Lab. He’d ridden buses previously in Portland and Palo Alto, but when he came to Berkeley and looked at the traffic, not to mention the daily drive up the hill to the Space Science Lab, he became […]
Wanna Buy a Ferry?
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 […]
Bay Crossings Riders of the Tides
By Christine Cordi Published: April, 2001 I came around the bend and suddenly there he was. His jawline was stronger than I had imagined. His body, squatter. All the better to glide under low hanging branches. There were no crowds, just the two of us, eye to eye in the San Diego rain. Jaguar 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 […]
Bay Crossings Bay Environment
By Teri Shore Bluewater Network Published: March, 2001 I started riding the ferry again after joining Bluewater Network. I usually board at Jack London Square to make the short leisurely cruise to San Francisco, but today I rode from Larkspur. It all depends whether I’m coming from home in the North Bay or from my […]
The Ferry Building GuyChris Meany, Overseer of Ferry Building Renovation Was it a nightmare getting a permit to renovate the Ferry Building?
Published: March, 2001 Chris Meany, Overseer of Ferry Building Renovation Was it a nightmare getting a permit to renovate the Ferry Building? No, but it was a very involved process because of the number of governmental agencies with jurisdiction – Port, BCDC, State Lands, National Park Service and others. The process began with an […]
North Bay / Delta
Published: March, 2001 Camels in the North Bay? The Bocce capital of the United States? Nostalgia aside, a day trip to Benicia or Martinez via the Vallejo Ferry and bus or rail links will offer a whole new world of unique experiences not found anywhere else. Believe it or not, the U.S. Army imported camels […]