East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)
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The East Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States. It lies on the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay, and includes Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
San Francisco Bay's eastern shore was once known as "Contra Costa" ("the other coast" or "the other shore"), a name now used for and exclusively associated with Contra Costa County, which occupies the East Bay shoreline's northern quarter and extensive inland areas, amounting to about half of the land area, with the remainder in Alameda County.
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[edit] Transportation
- Highways: Interstates 80, 580, 680, 880, California State Route 24 and California State Route 4 are the main highways of the East Bay. Minor Highways include California State Route 13, California State Route 84, California State Route 92, California State Route 238, Interstate 238, and California State Route 242
- Mass-Transit (Rail): Bay Area Rapid Transit District has an extensive route system feeding towards San Francisco. Amtrak California and Altamont Commuter Express also operate rail services in the East Bay
- Mass-Transit (Bus): AC Transit, County Connection, WestCAT, WHEELS, TriDelta Transit, Union City Transit provide bus service in the East Bay
[edit] Major employers
The East Bay is an economically well-developed area offering many employment opportunities. The largest employers are:
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- University of California, Berkeley with approximately 20,000 employees [1]
- AT&T with around 11,000 employees
- The U.S. Postal Service with around 10,000 employees
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with approximately 8,750 employees
- Chevron Corp. with 8,730 employees
- The county of Contra Costa County by offering 8,416 jobs
- Safeway with 7,922 employees
- Bank of America with 7,081 employees
- PG&E employing roughly 5,200 people
- New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) about 5,100 employees
- Kaiser Permanente with 4,730 employees
- Lucky Stores with 4,631 employees
- Bio-Rad Laboratories with 4,300 employees
- Wells Fargo that has around 4,000 people working for them in the East Bay
- Mount Diablo Unified School District with 3,700 employees
- West Contra Costa Unified School District with 3,360 employees
- John Muir Medical Center with 3,023
Other companies include Pixar, Longs Drugs and Contra Costa Newspapers all of which have their headquarters in the East Bay. [2]
[edit] In Pop Culture
- In 1995, punk rock band Rancid released a song titled "Journey to the End of the East Bay" on their ...And Out Come the Wolves album.
- During the 1990s, the band AFI classified themselves as East Bay Hardcore, including this title on merchandise at the time.
[edit] Cities
East Bay cities include:
- Alameda
- Albany
- Antioch
- Bay Point
- Berkeley
- Brentwood
- Castro Valley
- Concord
- Danville
- Dublin
- El Cerrito
- Emeryville
- Fremont
- Hayward
- Hercules
- Kensington
- Lafayette
- Livermore
- Martinez
- Moraga
- Newark
- North Richmond
- Oakland
- Oakley
- Orinda
- Piedmont
- Pittsburg
- Pinole
- Pleasant Hill
- Pleasanton
- Richmond
- Rodeo
- San Leandro
- San Lorenzo
- San Ramon
- Sunol
- Union City
- Walnut Creek
[edit] Notes
- ^ "University of California Statistical Summary and Data on UC Students, Faculty, and Staff" at [1]
- ^ "Office of County Administrator; County Audit, and various published sources, including San Francisco Chronicle, May 2002; East Bay Business Times, November 2001; San Francisco Business Times, November 1999. Data is for the reported entity’s latest fiscal year." as seen on: [2]
[edit] External Links
- CalEJ.org launched Fall 2006, this user-generated wiki features an environmental justice guide to the San Francisco Bay Area, with an early focus on the East Bay
