@@JDAbelRN HOW ABOUT SAFE?? My Roommate told me this afternoon that she seen a man smoking Meth crack on the BART train between Embarcadero to Powell street, WHERE Where the BART COPS, Playing Poker at Powell Street??
I remember a time when people talked about "BART's special smell." Despite what a modern BART rider might think, those people from an eternity ago were referring to BART's smell of cleanliness and "technology." It was the smell of the future. BART was the Space Age subway, a transit system lifted directly from the Jetsons and miraculously plunked down in the Bay Area. Today the only "special BART smell" that riders talk about is the smell you still feel on your clothes after riding BART. It's a smell of urine, feces, and sweat. BART needs to return to its normal self. The system needs to be made safe and clean. They need to return to the original 80 mph design speed of the system. The degradation that BART has been experiencing under its new leadership over the last 10-15 years needs to be stopped and reversed. Believe it or not, BART can be awesome. It was not too long ago! We just need to get back what was squandered.
Complain! Email your Board member! Write them a comment on the website! If riders don't actively complain about something then both the BART board and the executives pretend like the problem does not exist! The only way to make them take action is to raise hell about it.
I took the BART last week. Interesting system, just clean up everything especially the pile of human crap someone left complete with toilet paper, clean everything with disinfectant, wash the exterior, make the cars much quieter, scrub the stations, improve society and you will be on track again to a world class system.
Must be have been before 1988 because the Channel tunnel between France and England is 115 m (377 ft) below sea level. Nowadays, the deepest tunnel is in Norway at 292 m under the sea.
1974 I was on the 1st Daley City Undercrossing. I sat up front and watched the LEDs reach 70 mph under the bay. I was 12. Travel then was easy by bus and I did it a few times to see the other side of the bay. Later, I went to concerts..BART was my tranport. Imagine a 12 year old boy doing just that on his own and no adult supervision. Unheard of today. We were free then. And I grew up in GG PARK. Ando so ,I am what I am, and that's all that I am..Darrell the Curious Man.
I remember it only went from Daly City to Montgomery at first. I rode on those excursion rides. We lived in Westlake. The Daly City FART location was a Yellow Cab parking lot- dirt I think before FART was there.
Yes I remember that too when leaving the 24th street station to Glen Park the BART train did reach 70mph as in those days the system was on Manual Control until the computer system was installed in the mid 1970's - 1978.. as the average speed of 50 to 65 mph... What a Crock...
The BART board appears to be 50% ideological crazies who see their positions on the BART board as a stepping stone to a regional and statewide political career. These people do not care about transit. They don't care about the riders. They don't care about the people who gave up owning a car to support transit. They just want to make themselves as electable as possible with their pretty crazy political base. That's how we got some truly nonsensical decisions on safety, cleanliness, and train speed. These people need to be run out of office! They are incompetent. They don't know how to run a transit system nor do they care to learn.
Sadly BART has lost lots of its “pampering”. BUT! Hope is on the horizon! New cars and extensions are coming and new fare gates to crack down on fare cheaters and hopefully a plan to deal with the homeless issue.
@@alexcarrillo5510 The number of seats is calculated in such a way as to allow the riders from the far ends of the system to get seat for their long rides into the core of the Bay (SF-Oakland-Berkeley). Meanwhile, for the much more numerous riders from the core they provisioned for more standing room. This makes perfect sense. If you are taking a short ride of one or two stops in SF or Oakland then you don't need a seat. But you do need more standing room. These decisions are made based on standard practice in transit planning. There's even software to predict the best mix of seats and standing room. It's not like they're guessing or throwing dice.
It's possible the General envisioned building (or dredging) Treasure Island into existence (as it was originally envisioned as a Navy/military facility anyway right?). Regardless, the General George Washington Goethals was way ahead of his time, in his thinking/thought process and engineering. He was a civil engineer in the Army Corps of Engineers, and lead engineer/ designer of the Panama Canal.
You're confusing lightrail (tram) with light rail (literally lightweight rail vehicles). BART is indeed extremely light. BART cars are custom and built from lightweight aluminum. Lightrail (tram) cars are usually much heavier than BART cars. Yes, I know that this is confusing. The "light" in lightrail means that the trackside infrastructure is not as involved as with traditional or "heavy rail" systems. It's not actually referring to the weight of the vehicles themselves.
@@alexcarrillo5510 That's nonsense. You happen to live on far out suburban spur so your frequency is lower than in the rest of the system. You can lobby your BART Board member so that they can try to increase frequency on your spur. I live in the so-called "Core BART System" (SF-Oakland-Berkeley). At my station a train comes every 4 minutes. This is where the vast majority of people live so it makes sense that it's well-served by BART and other transportation. This is completely normal frequency for a subway, btw. The NY subway has about 4-4.5 minute frequencies too. Just because you live out in the boonies does not make BART "not a subway."
It's impossible to "fix" the traffic issue if the highways remain free to use. What transit does is to give more people the opportunity to bypass that traffic entirely by taking the train. And BART has done that in spades. BART's transbay tube carries more passengers than the 10-lane Bay Bridge! In fact, the Bay Area has grown so much around BART that without it our traffic is basically going to block the entire region. Getting to SF would be simply impossible. Commuting from places like Dublin would take over 4 hours in rush our traffic. BART is insanely effective at fixing traffic. But it can only do that for you if you are willing to ride the train. To be fair, BART has insane capacity and actually does measurably reduce congestion. But that happens purely because some people choose not to drive if they know that the traffic will be bad.
How old is this video???? BART is a Costly Toy Train set JOKE, 50 years it has been running, and the system is falling apart. Do you ride the Bart Under the transbay tube?? IT IS NOISY like hell, and since the opening of the tube back in 1974 they still cannot correct the sounds of the rails grinding on the BART CARS!! It is the most TORTURE 4minutes, and 50seconds of shrill loud grinding crap. They should of issued Earplugs after you passed the through the gates. And still it suppose to be at a high speed of 70mph, the average speed is under 50. Even the MUNI Metro which they are above the BART Tracks Are QUIET, and they carry a lot more people everyday.... She should take lessons from them to correct the LOUD SHRIEKING NOISE!!!!
"Pamper the Passenger"....that motto is long gone...lmao.....im on BART every day and I do not feel anywhere near pampered.
Maybe if we could just get the bums to cooperate and make the public feel more comfortable 🤔. 😵💫🤯
@@JDAbelRN We can, it takes a matter of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship to make a positive change.
@@JDAbelRN HOW ABOUT SAFE?? My Roommate told me this afternoon that she seen a man smoking Meth crack on the BART train between Embarcadero to Powell street, WHERE Where the BART COPS, Playing Poker at Powell Street??
I remember a time when people talked about "BART's special smell." Despite what a modern BART rider might think, those people from an eternity ago were referring to BART's smell of cleanliness and "technology." It was the smell of the future. BART was the Space Age subway, a transit system lifted directly from the Jetsons and miraculously plunked down in the Bay Area.
Today the only "special BART smell" that riders talk about is the smell you still feel on your clothes after riding BART. It's a smell of urine, feces, and sweat.
BART needs to return to its normal self. The system needs to be made safe and clean. They need to return to the original 80 mph design speed of the system. The degradation that BART has been experiencing under its new leadership over the last 10-15 years needs to be stopped and reversed. Believe it or not, BART can be awesome. It was not too long ago! We just need to get back what was squandered.
I'll remember the "Pamper the Passenger" sign next time I step over a puddle of urine in the Powell St. Bart station.
Complain! Email your Board member! Write them a comment on the website!
If riders don't actively complain about something then both the BART board and the executives pretend like the problem does not exist! The only way to make them take action is to raise hell about it.
I took the BART last week. Interesting system, just clean up everything especially the pile of human crap someone left complete with toilet paper, clean everything with disinfectant, wash the exterior, make the cars much quieter, scrub the stations, improve society and you will be on track again to a world class system.
Glad you saw the pile i left
Must be have been before 1988 because the Channel tunnel between France and England is 115 m (377 ft) below sea level. Nowadays, the deepest tunnel is in Norway at 292 m under the sea.
1974
I was on the 1st Daley City Undercrossing. I sat up front and watched the LEDs reach 70 mph under the bay.
I was 12.
Travel then was easy by bus and I did it a few times to see the other side of the bay.
Later, I went to concerts..BART was my tranport.
Imagine a 12 year old boy doing just that on his own and no adult supervision.
Unheard of today.
We were free then.
And I grew up in GG PARK.
Ando so ,I am what I am, and that's all that I am..Darrell the Curious Man.
I remember it only went from Daly City to Montgomery at first. I rode on those excursion rides. We lived in Westlake. The Daly City FART location was a Yellow Cab parking lot- dirt I think before FART was there.
Yes I remember that too when leaving the 24th street station to Glen Park the BART train did reach 70mph as in those days the system was on Manual Control until the computer system was installed in the mid 1970's - 1978.. as the average speed of 50 to 65 mph... What a Crock...
That must not be the motto anymore.
The BART board appears to be 50% ideological crazies who see their positions on the BART board as a stepping stone to a regional and statewide political career. These people do not care about transit. They don't care about the riders. They don't care about the people who gave up owning a car to support transit.
They just want to make themselves as electable as possible with their pretty crazy political base. That's how we got some truly nonsensical decisions on safety, cleanliness, and train speed.
These people need to be run out of office! They are incompetent. They don't know how to run a transit system nor do they care to learn.
Sadly BART has lost lots of its “pampering”. BUT! Hope is on the horizon! New cars and extensions are coming and new fare gates to crack down on fare cheaters and hopefully a plan to deal with the homeless issue.
lmao 6 months later and everybody still hops bart as they should
As long as blacks are on the same train as me I am never going to pay a fare.
Those new cars are nice BUT Less Seats!
@@alexcarrillo5510 The number of seats is calculated in such a way as to allow the riders from the far ends of the system to get seat for their long rides into the core of the Bay (SF-Oakland-Berkeley). Meanwhile, for the much more numerous riders from the core they provisioned for more standing room.
This makes perfect sense. If you are taking a short ride of one or two stops in SF or Oakland then you don't need a seat. But you do need more standing room.
These decisions are made based on standard practice in transit planning. There's even software to predict the best mix of seats and standing room. It's not like they're guessing or throwing dice.
FYI Treasure Island did not exist in 1920, so the map is from at least 16 years later than his proposal.
It's possible the General envisioned building (or dredging) Treasure Island into existence (as it was originally envisioned as a Navy/military facility anyway right?). Regardless, the General George Washington Goethals was way ahead of his time, in his thinking/thought process and engineering. He was a civil engineer in the Army Corps of Engineers, and lead engineer/ designer of the Panama Canal.
The map showed is a 1950 Bart plan. They didn’t show a 1920 map but the 1920 plan had a similar route to the tube today.
Obv this doc was made before the Chunnel
Channel*
He’s technically correct. Another nickname for the Channel Tunnel is the “Chunnel”, as many affectionately call it.
Hardly "light rail" by passenger volume or typical rolling stock, by the way.
@@Blahblahblah14898 Light rail can be grade separated as well. e.g., the Norristown High Speed Line.
You're confusing lightrail (tram) with light rail (literally lightweight rail vehicles). BART is indeed extremely light. BART cars are custom and built from lightweight aluminum. Lightrail (tram) cars are usually much heavier than BART cars.
Yes, I know that this is confusing. The "light" in lightrail means that the trackside infrastructure is not as involved as with traditional or "heavy rail" systems. It's not actually referring to the weight of the vehicles themselves.
_Light Rail_ ? BART is a subway. The F Line in San Francisco is light rail.
They likely meant lighter than main line railroads.
Wow what a bad conparison
@Angel Jose Mendoza Streetcars are considered Light Rail.
BART is not a Subway, it is not even close it never on time, and have to wait about 10minutes or more to get to leave Walnut Creek to SF.
@@alexcarrillo5510 That's nonsense. You happen to live on far out suburban spur so your frequency is lower than in the rest of the system. You can lobby your BART Board member so that they can try to increase frequency on your spur.
I live in the so-called "Core BART System" (SF-Oakland-Berkeley). At my station a train comes every 4 minutes. This is where the vast majority of people live so it makes sense that it's well-served by BART and other transportation.
This is completely normal frequency for a subway, btw. The NY subway has about 4-4.5 minute frequencies too. Just because you live out in the boonies does not make BART "not a subway."
Is no one else barely just finding out this exists and I’m the only one bothered or scared by this lmao
Are you talking about the tube? I go through it almost every day :P
I'm genuinely curious, what are you bothered or scared by?
They didn't fix the traffic issue
It's impossible to "fix" the traffic issue if the highways remain free to use. What transit does is to give more people the opportunity to bypass that traffic entirely by taking the train.
And BART has done that in spades. BART's transbay tube carries more passengers than the 10-lane Bay Bridge! In fact, the Bay Area has grown so much around BART that without it our traffic is basically going to block the entire region. Getting to SF would be simply impossible. Commuting from places like Dublin would take over 4 hours in rush our traffic.
BART is insanely effective at fixing traffic. But it can only do that for you if you are willing to ride the train. To be fair, BART has insane capacity and actually does measurably reduce congestion. But that happens purely because some people choose not to drive if they know that the traffic will be bad.
How old is this video???? BART is a Costly Toy Train set JOKE, 50 years it has been running, and the system is falling apart. Do you ride the Bart Under the transbay tube?? IT IS NOISY like hell, and since the opening of the tube back in 1974 they still cannot correct the sounds of the rails grinding on the BART CARS!! It is the most TORTURE 4minutes, and 50seconds of shrill loud grinding crap. They should of issued Earplugs after you passed the through the gates. And still it suppose to be at a high speed of 70mph, the average speed is under 50. Even the MUNI Metro which they are above the BART Tracks Are QUIET, and they carry a lot more people everyday.... She should take lessons from them to correct the LOUD SHRIEKING NOISE!!!!