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San Francisco, California:
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)

Description

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District operates a network of rapid-transit rail lines that radiate outward from San Francisco to serve mostly the eastern Bay area. It was the first of the "new generation" of rapid-transit lines in the United States, designed for high speed and automated train operation. Trains operate from San Francisco and Oakland to Fremont, Dublin/Pleasanton, Pittsburg/Bay Point, and Richmond in the East Bay area, and to Colma south of San Francisco. The first trains began operation in September 1972. An 8.7-mile extension from Colma to Millbrae and San Francisco International Airport opened on 22 June 2003.

You can find more a more detailed description and history of the BART system on Loren Petrich's Bay Area Transit Information site.

Pictures

These pictures were taken in early June 1997.

[picture] A train leaves the Colma station, in a view from above.

[picture] The underground Glen Park station in San Francisco has a high vaulted ceiling.

[picture #1] | [picture #2] The underground Lake Merritt station in Oakland has a more conventional "boxy" layout.

[picture] A train arrives at Dublin/Pleasanton. This line runs in the median of the I-580 expressway through the hills between Castro Valley and Pleasanton.

[picture] Passengers leave a train which has just arrived at Dublin/Pleasanton.

[picture] A Livermore "Wheels" bus arrives at the Dublin/Pleasanton station, with the station itself in the background.

[picture] Rear view of the bus in the preceding picture

This page was last updated on 23 June 2003, and reviewed on 28 May 2005.

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