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July
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Amtrak
Under the Gunn
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and trains interconnected all over the Bay Area until roads
metastasized and killed the system off. A pale imitation of national
rail service staggers along in the form of Amtrak, though auto and
gas servitors in Congress do their best to run it to ground.
Eventually, ferries and trains will return (albeit at staggering
cost). Our very own cantankerous Guy Span gives his take on how
Amtrak has fared. Go to Article |
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Ferry
Building Clock Gets Ticking |
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It hasn’t
been easy going for the Ferry Building development team Wilson/Meany.
Their project got started just as the dot-com boom started to crater.
Regulators, environmentalists and preservationists dogged their every
step. Well, the Doubting Thomas’ and Sidewalk Superintendents were
nowhere to be found the glorious June afternoon that saw time start again
at the foot of Market Street. Go to Article
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| Portfest
2003 a Smashing Success |
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Every year the Port of
Oakland throws a party to honor its waterfront and invites the City
to come and party down. This year the bash was bigger, better and
just plain badder than ever, confirming Portfest as the
undisputed Champion of San Francisco Bay waterfront celebrations.
Go to Article
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| Bikes on Boats |
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Our WTA pages look at the
burgeoning use of bikes on boats, and the many possibilities for
even more recreational use.
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| On theCover
Everybody’s reading Bay Crossings these days,
even Oakland A’s ace Tim Hudson. He’s on our cover apropos of
nothing, frankly, beyond our rabid support of the A’s (and his
willingness to do it). But the Oakland A’s do have a real, if
distant, interest in comprehensive ferry service. Plans for lines
connecting the Oakland Airport/Coliseum complex will make it as
convenient and pleasant to get to A’s games by ferry as it already
is to get to Giants games. And the Raiders and Warriors to boot.
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Bay CrossingsPoem
By Mccabe Coolidge
SQUIRT FIGHT
a chaotic orchestrated perk
of salt sent water
creates puddling circles in the
marsh
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here then there, centimeters
of salt brine fountain
up and over, up and over
are these oysters
fighting or singing?
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| “DOG
DAYS OF SUMMER” Digital Photo Contest. |
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August hot summer days have long
been called the ‘Dog Days of Summer’.
This summer give us your best shot, of a dog.
It must be taken between July 1st and July 18th
to qualify. Please do
not crop, sharpen or modify in any way.
The winner(s) will be given a prize of dinner for two at one
of our Advertiser’s wonderful restaurants.
The 10 best shots will be on the web in our August issue and
at least the 5 best will be printed in the Bay Crossings August
Newsprint Magazine.
Please restrict the photo to
dogs but if a person is in the photo do obtain a photo release
permission from the person in the shot.
Send the pictures not exceed 3
mg in size, prefer 300 dpi to
info@baycrossings.com. |
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