Volume 1, Number 2 --
February 2000
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Governor Gray Davis proposes $12 million
for the new Bay Area Water Transit Authority's first year of operation. Click
here for full text of this article
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Friends of a Regional Ferry
System a Success Story
The non-profit group
formed last December to spread the word about plans for a comprehensive regional
ferry plan, is growing fast. Click
here for full text of this article
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How the Commuters Saved the
Vallejo Ferry
These days, Vallejo ferry service
is an unquestioned success story. Fast, modern ferryboats full to the brim with
contented commuters speed between San Francisco and Vallejo every day. A
beautiful terminal at the Vallejo end, seamless bus connections all the way to
Sacramento, a state-of-the-art web site that even lets you track the boats as
they cross the Bay; it all adds up to a premiere operation that can fairly be
called the pride of the North Bay.
Hard to believe that just 12
years ago ferry service to Vallejo was about to be eliminated – and surely
would have been had it not been for the quick intervention of the Vallejo
commuters.
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Berkeley Ferry – A
Grass-roots Success Story
"Quake riders" in Berkeley
did more than just ride the ferry, they helped make it a reality.
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A
Berkeley Ferry: Is It Feasible?
The 1992 Regional Ferry Plan
prepared for MTC evaluated 17 potential new ferry routes throughout the
Bay Area. Of the potential
new routes, four stood out as the most feasible and were recommended to
receive further analysis. The
1999 San Francisco Bay Area Regional Ferry Plan Update re-evaluated
three of these potential routes - the fourth (Alameda Harbor Bay Island to
San Francisco) has been implemented.
Once again, a ferry from Albany or Berkeley to San Francisco stood
out as a route with a high potential for successful transit service.
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article.
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Riders of the Tides
Read our new column by Richmond
Ferry Rider Christine Cordi. "This inaugural commentary reminds
me of other firsts in my life: the first time I went to school, my first solo,
my first kiss, my first love, my — uh oh, I think this is going in the wrong
direction".
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Recollections of a Tule Sailor
John
Leale was at the helm of San Francisco ferryboats for 41 years, from 1873 to
1914, the Golden Age of ferries on the Bay. He was in his prime as ferry service
reached its zenith in the late 1800’s and played an important role in the
relief effort after the Great Earthquake. He lived long enough to see the
opening of the Bay Bridge that would nearly destroy ferry service in the Bay
Area. His charming memoir, freighted with wit and wisdom, is a distilled
accounting of Leales’ 125,000 round-trip crossings of San Francisco Bay.
Click here for the full text of this article.
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Powers of
Check out how the Government got people out of
their cars when it really mattered. Click
here for the full text of this article.
Friends of a Regional Ferry
System
P.O. Box 747
Alameda, CA 94501
V 925-212-3876
F 925-215-2520
Email: info@baycrossings.org
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