Volume 1, Number 3 -- March, 2000
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Are Ferries Environmentally Friendly?
There is good news
and there is bad news for ferry advocates made anxious by charges that
ferries damage the environment. Click
here for full text of this article
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Appointments made to Water Transit Authority
Three appointments have been made to the San Francisco Bay
Area Water Transit Authority Board. Click
here for full text of this article
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Are Ferries Environmentally Friendly? Well, Maybe.
Environmentalist Russell Long weighs in: "The
answer to this question is crucial, because from Australia to the Canary
Islands, fast ferries are becoming the rage.." Click
here for full text of this article
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Are Ferries Environmentally Friendly? Without a Doubt.
Marine Engineer Jim Sweeney: "The exhaust emissions of present ferry diesel engines per
passenger mile are in fact comparable to those of competing land transit
vehicles. Projecting into the future, engineering developments are bound to
benefit all transit modes (probably more for ferries than land vehicles)."
Click here for full text of this article
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Ferries of the world
Go to New Zealand in this new feature, sponsored by World Explorer
Cruises. Click here for the full text of this article.
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History of the Ferryboatmen’s Union
The Ferryboatmen’s Union of California came into being in
November 1918. Click
here for the full text of this article.
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Riders of the Tides
Our monthly rumination from Richmond rider Christine Cordi.
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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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