I-580 Accident Underscores Importance of Vehicle and Passenger Ferries on the Bay

It is the domestic crises that bring home the bankruptcy of the capitalist war machine and should be featured regularly in the center column of this website. San Francisco still has a major failure of an entire transportation network, the entire Muni Metro train system, which can only deliver people ontime 25% of the time, because the Democratic Party machine of San Francisco did not bother hiring more drivers and mechanics when they added the new T Third line. That is ant-labor enough; then at the same time they introduced the T Third, they had 2 Democratic Party Supervisors Daly and Peskin promote an anti-labor charter amendment to attack drivers' and mechanics' wages and working conditions, trying to blame labor for the failures of design and lack of sufficient workers caused by the Democratic Party's management! In Oakland, we have the same Democratic-Republican administration allowing an inevitable second tanker truck crash at the same site, and the site was also the location of a freeway collapse in the 1989 earthquake, yet the freeways are made of the same cheap material while 100% of the Assembly and 80% of the state Senate, Democrats & Republicans together, vote for money for more prisons. This is the same gang that promotes the US military base to protect US oil profits in the Middle East, namely Israel, and supports the continued occupation of Iraq to steal Iraqi oil. It is also the same gang that cuts taxes on the rich, those who make over $200,000 a year, which should be raised to pay for buses, trains and ferries for people, and boats and trains to transport all dangerous substances, including gasoline. This same gang never abolished tanker trucks from the freeways when this happened in 1995 nor provided alternatives. It is by discussing these domestic issues and connecting them to the financing of the war machine, as we cannot have guns and butter, that you build a peace and labor movement. Please feature the San Francisco and Oakland transportation crises.

Just a correction -- the Bay and Golden Gate Bridges were completed in 1936 and 1937, respectively.

so called ''progressive'' ''bay area'' , your still letting things like this dark ages tanker crashes...we could have had new enegy ''policies'' by now, but i think we are in a huge mess of a ''planet''....

The transbay bus is outrageously priced, compared to other cities nationally, and also for the low-income people consigned to using the bus with its limited services. A daily round trip is $7 - which would be $1500 for riding it daily to work. You could easily pay for full insurance and quite a lot of gas or bridge tolls for the same price, particularly if you carpool.