Fun fact my Grandfather was the First person to CRASH a bart train! Donald Aguilar was a test train driver in late 1971 and while out on a test run and error occurred and he was throw onto a siding where another train was parked. Crashed into it at 45mph and both trains were heavily damaged, He lived but was injured. However BART took care of him and provided him and our Family over 25 years of income and stability. Thank you BART!

I was a systems technician for what is now United Technologies when we built the Bart cars for PBTB. We manufactured primarily airliners and their components, so the design was essentially an airliner with no wings. I became the first person to sit in the first seat, of the first Bart Car. .

BART was well ahead of its time. Still serves as a vital transit artery today connecting all regions of the Bay Area.

Believe it or not, there are many electronic component inside the Transit Bay Tube and Berkeley Tunnel still running after 50 years of service.

My Grandfather designed the electrical for The Tube. He left a warm spot in my heart when I used to commute from S.F. to Berkeley back in the 90s. Considering that this was made in the 60s, this was incredibly amazing.

Fascinating history.

Quiet and smooth, yeah right.

It’s a system that isn’t living up to its mission. We need not just more new trains but we need more lines. Further into San Jose, down Peninsula and north into Marin, Benicia, Vallejo, Tracy, etc. It needs to have floor to ceiling fare gates where no one can sneak into the system or out without paying. Also keeps out the undesirable people who ride transit and cause issues and since they don’t pay their fare they don’t give a shit. We need security on EVERY SINGLE TRAIN and on EVERY SINGLE PLATFORM. Also BART needs to prevent these so called “medical emergencies” aka suicides on the rails, we need automatic open and close platform doors that do not allow access to tracks or tunnels. Lastly, it needs to be cost effective. It isn’t. Unlimited fares need to be introduced and it needs to cost less to go ANYWHERE on BART than a gallon of gas.

incredible!

If we continued to innovate and invest in transportation I bet we would have such better roads and a system as a whole

WOW! Your vision of reality, not mine 🙏🏼

It's so stupid how back then, Marin County don't want anything to do with this so Sonoma County didn't get BART even though we wanted it. Fast forward to today, we now have SMART trains up here. So we got trains anyway. Stupid decisions was made back then.

How......to WOW. At least I got to 50 before BART. How I met BART is funny but it wouldn't be worse.

BART is breaking down. The most recent time that I took it, I had to be careful to avoid a stop where a BART train had been sitting for about a half hour. The train that I was on arrived to its destination late, and I almost missed my connecting once-an-hour bus. On the way back, the train stopped three times in the tube. The first time it stopped for about 10 minutes. There were no announcements about why the train had stopped.

The last thing BART is, is quiet. Why was Albany skipped? A Solano Ave station might have been a good idea.

Is that Leonard Nimoy narrating?

The thing about these modernist systems is that they tend to decay aesthetically in worse ways than the systems of the turn of the century since these rely on their newness and sterility to appear presentable.

BART is a shining example of how garbage of a public transportation system we have, Asian and European countries are SHALLACKING us in this field and also Bart is too often unsafe to ride, THE BAY AREA DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER!!!;)

Guess this would be called a propaganda piece.

The clowns in Los Angeles County waited 40 years to start a viable transit system