Each year, breweries, venues and event hosts of all types from across the Bay Area celebrate independent craft beer and its role within our communities of fostering friendships, encouraging collaboration, and as a source of creativity and self-expression. They do this in the form of a curated “week” (actually 10 days) of amazing, inspiring events […]
The Port of San Francisco sees in Piers 38 and 40 the opportunity to transform an underused stretch of the City’s waterfront into a vibrant extension of the bustling South Beach and South of Market neighborhoods that it borders. Last month, the port invited developers to suggest strategies to make the piers a destination for […]
Last month, high tides in San Francisco Bay washed up onto the shoreline of a large former pharmaceutical company in Richmond. A few hours later, the outgoing tide pulled contamination—including pesticides, toxic chemicals and radioactive waste—off the industrial land and into the Bay. Right now, this occurs a few times every year during the highest […]
Richmond Weekend Service to Resume: WETA has recommended that the pilot ferry program providing weekend service between the Port of San Francisco and Richmond, which launched last August, should continue. The pilot program ran for 12 weeks from August 2019 to October 2019, and according to a survey of about 200 riders, many enjoyed the […]
San Francisco Bay Tideline ferry Captain Glenn Williams and deckhand Lester Laboi received special recognition last Thursday from Senator Diane Feinstein for their heroics during a man overboard rescue in the cold waters of the San Francisco Bay the Friday before Christmas. Tideline Marine Group is a private, small-boat ferry service operating out of the […]
Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Jim Wunderman as the chair of the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) Board of Directors. Mr. Wunderman has served as the WETA Board vice chair since 2015, when he was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown. Governor Newsom will appoint a new vice chair to serve on […]
BY BOBBY WINSTON Twenty years ago, and I was looking for something to do between jobs. I thought I’d spend just a few months volunteering as an advocate for more ferry service. God laughs at the plans of man. . . I fell under the spell of the hard-charging Ron Cowan, colorful Harbor Bay developer […]
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 […]