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Usually buskers stay outside the gates to the train platform, which is downstairs from the station entrance.
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I've always been a fan of the BART rolling stock, particularly ones with the slanted ends. BART trains have a wonderful 1960's look while still looking futuristic.
BART has a weekday ridership of 335,000, making it the fifth busiest rapid-transit system in the United States. The first segment of the system opened in 1972 but it didn't connect the East Bay with San Francisco until 1974.
This is an unusual rapid-transit system in that it spreads throughout the San Francisco metropolitan area while providing relatively little urban service to San Francisco itself. In that sense, it operates more like a commuter / regional rail system than an urban rapid-transit system. This isn't necessarily bad, as the Washington Metro or (especially) the Paris RER demonstrate, but the BART was designed with nearly all of its service concentrated in one line in San Francisco, limiting its utility for transport throughout the urban core while the limited track space reduces the frequency of trains at the various branches throughout the wider metropolitan area, making it less attractive than it could otherwise be in the suburbs. To better grasp the planning debacle, compare the system to the Washington Metro: both systems were planned around the same time with the same general idea (regional transit in the freeway age), opened within a few years of each other, and are roughly the same size, yet the Washington Metro has over twice the ridership of the BART. The difference is made even more stark when you consider that San Francisco is both much more populous and dense, has a more dense metropolitan area, has historically been more transit dependent, and has a higher cost of driving when compared to Washington.
It is sometimes said by planners that the enemy of the good is the perfect, that essentially you go with the tools you have and be thankful that something was accomplished. In the case of the BART, I would say that that sentiment is rubbish. Is the system of benefit? Yes, who would deny that? However, considering that the financial and political cost over the years and what resulted, everyone would have been better served had they waited for something closer to "the perfect".
A new 'Fleet of the Future' BART car parked on a trailer in transit to the Bay Area at the Truck Inn parking area at Interstate 80 exit 48 in Fernley, Nevada. At right is the A (driving cab) end of a type D unit. The "teeth" in front of the cab are retractable anti-incursion devices that fold out of the way when this is the front car of a train. The teeth are to prevent people from getting in between the coupled cars.
BART to Embarcadero was my regular commute in the past.
Now After our Amtrak trip, Larry and I use it as a connection between San Francisco and South San Francisco to visit family.
We took a short trip to visit a friend in Washington DC. BART is very similar to the DC rapid transit (I forgot the name of it).
BART stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit.
It is a subway system that goes underground, above ground, and under San Francisco Bay.