Bay Area grocers enter FasTrak

Oakland Tribune;  September 17, 2006 ;     459 words ...Bay Area Safeway and Costco stores...by the end of the year. The Bay Area Toll Authority voted Wednesday...along the approaches to the Bay Area's eight bridges, where e-toll lanes can handle...the vehicles traversing the Bay Area's bridges are using FasTrak ...

Safeway, Costco, and gas stations around Bay Area enter FasTrak

Oakland Tribune;  September 16, 2006 ;     459 words ...Bay Area Safeway and Costco stores...by the end of the year. The Bay Area Toll Authority voted Wednesday...along the approaches to the Bay Area's eight bridges, where e-toll lanes can handle...the vehicles traversing the Bay Area's bridges are using FasTrak ...

Bay Area transportation projects among the most in the nation.(Knight...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ......highway construction, the Bay Area rocks. By the end of the...entering a dramatic time in Bay Area history, said Andrew Fremier...nearly every corner of the Bay Area over the next 5 to 10 years...to car- pool lanes to new bridges. The new eastern span of...and east Contra ...

Bay Area bridge security at its highest since threats received

University Wire;  November 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Calif. -- Security around Bay Area bridges was increased over the...Bay bridges and two other bridges in Southern California...threats" that California bridges may be attacked by terrorists...roving officers on the bridges as well as the use of surveillance...24-hour ...

Bay Area escape routes get an 'F'.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA);  October 13, 2006 ;     448 words ......on Thursday gave the Bay Area an F on evacuation...considered the fact that Bay Area freeways are often...normal circumstances and bridges may not hold up during...accessibility by car. The Bay Area fell into the bottom...the Association of Bay Area Governments. ...

Bay Area ferry network to get another look

Oakland Tribune;  February 17, 2006 ;     300 words ......terrorist attack or other Bay Area disaster. The Bay Area Council announced Thursday...Executive Director Jerry Bridges, retired Golden Gate Transit...Director John Martin, and Bay Area Council President and CEO...conceived in part by the Bay Area Council, ...

Lawmaker wants to increase tolls on Bay Area bridges.(Knight Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 19, 2002 ;     545 words ......on state-owned bridges in the Bay Area to pay for more...of the Senate's Bay Area Transportation...and Carquinez bridges. The Golden Gate...power to increase Bay Area tolls _ to raise...current toll on Bay Area bridges is $2. While the...

San Francisco Bay Area's smog gets worse.(Originated from Knight-Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 2, 1996 ;     700+ words ......are the two smoggiest summers in the nine-county Bay Area region since 1987. The trend, which is being scrutinized...about it,'' said Teresa Lee, a spokeswoman for the Bay Area Air Quality Managment District. ``From a health standpoint...from an economic standpoint it's not good.'' The Bay ...

BRACING BAY AREA BRIDGES WILL PUT THOUSANDS TO...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  February 11, 1996 ;     493 words ......needed to brace Bay Area bridges against earthquakes...nine-county greater Bay Area. But nobody is breaking...the '90s. In the Bay Area, 1995 contract awards...1 billion on the bridges would generate about...most in the East Bay area. Several ...

Report Puts Transportation Facts at Your Fingertips; Key Indicators Show...

PR Newswire;  December 12, 2003 ;     549 words ......of the pressure off the Bay Area transportation system in...passengers flying into or out of Bay Area airports. Even so, travel...daily traffic volume on Bay Area bridges both inched up 1 percent...indicators can be found in Bay Area Transportation: State ...

As quake's anniversary nears, study assesses threat to Bay Area.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  April 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ......for a century in the San Francisco Bay Area, but the devastation wrought last...newest disaster forecast for the Bay Area came Monday, one day before the...announcing a three-year plan to prepare Bay Area residents. It's the people themselves...knocked out. She put the odds that the ...

Bay Area Faces $5.6 Billion Shortfall for Local Streets and Roads.

PR Newswire;  April 4, 2000 ;     411 words ......20 years, the San Francisco Bay Area is projected to run short...storm drains, rehab of local bridges and overpasses, and the like...agency for the nine-county Bay Area -- today released a 15-page...of all road mileage in the Bay Area. (Caltrans maintains 7 percent...cities ...

Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders.(Book review)

California History;  March 22, 2007 ;     503 words ...LEGACY: PORTRAITS OF 50 BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL ELDERS Photographs by Nancy Kittle and...that it was not always so. Legacy: Portraits of 50 Bay Area Environmental Elders is a tender and important homage...environmental amenities we now take for granted in the Bay Area. It was the ...

Study suggests discounts to raise FasTrak use: BAY AREA: Officials say...

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA);  February 27, 2007 ;     535 words ......Cuff Feb. 27--Bay Area bridge operators...a study. On bridges in New York...and fuel use. Bay Area transit officials...improvements to Bay Area bridges leaves little...on six of the Bay Area's seven state-owned bridges. The Antioch...

What Bay Area learned from Japanese quake. (Originated from Knight-Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 19, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Francisco, Oakland or San Jose. Bay Area residents and policy-makers...improved by recent research. _Bay Area homes, largely wood frame...underground utilities. In the Bay Area, some well-known sites...structures. So does the Bay Area. The older concrete ...