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A look at what BART could have been, what it still has potential to be

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  • čas přidán 10. 02. 2019
  • Plenty of riders have criticized BART over the decades, but to really understand it's strengths and weaknesses, you have to ride back even further in time, to the battles that raged before the first shovels even broke ground. abc7ne.ws/2TFKxpq
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Komentáře • 55

  • @mk3a
    @mk3a Před 2 lety +13

    You can thank NIMBYS for the original plan coming up short.

  • @ron4501
    @ron4501 Před 2 lety +22

    In Eastern Contra Costa County, we have been paying for a BART extension for decades yet we wound up with a toy ebart diesel train that forces riders onto narrow little trains for one stop before having to get off and transfer to the real BART trains. The Antioch station which services hundreds of thousands of people and is one of the fastest growing parts of the bay area, got a small parking lot that is full by 7am. Now they added a new parking lot yet cities like Walnut Creek just got another huge multi-level parking garage. I guess no BART board members live in Oakley, Antioch, Brentwood or beyond.

  • @eggballo4490
    @eggballo4490 Před 4 lety +11

    They should build future Bart lines on the lower level of the Bay bridge and use the right of way for the old Key System Electric Railway that connected San Francisco to Oakland via the Bay bridge from 1938 to 1958.

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth Před 3 lety +2

      Bingo!

    • @eggballo4490
      @eggballo4490 Před 3 lety +1

      @Va Sr I meant in the form of an LRT, not heavy rail.

    • @TohaBgood2
      @TohaBgood2 Před rokem

      @Va Sr That's impossible to know for sure without a study. But we do know that BART was specifically designed as a extremely light system capable of going on automotive bridges. It is not at all farfetched to assume that a relatively light BART train would be ideal for the Bay Bridge lower deck. The Bay Bridge is after all a rail bridge that was retrofitted to accept cars on the lower deck. It was not designed for cars originally.

    • @TohaBgood2
      @TohaBgood2 Před rokem

      @Va Sr BART is a superlight system that was specifically designed to run on the Golden Gate Bridge. A BART car weighs less than a semi and the lower deck of the Bay Bridge was designed for trucks and trains originally. And those old steel trains were heavier than aluminum BART cars. A full ten-car BART train weighs less than 10 semis.
      The bridge can definitely take it. If anything, having a million cars stuck in traffic on what was a rail bridge is probably more damaging to the Bay Bridge.

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 Před rokem

    loving relations with the government mom and roommates!!!!!!!!!!! and the teachers and the school............

  • @TheCloakedTiger
    @TheCloakedTiger Před 5 lety +9

    Just wait till VTA is up and running with the new BART extension. Once that opens, you will have a ring of transit around the Bay Area. BART to VTA, VTA to Caltrain.

    • @qjtvaddict
      @qjtvaddict Před 3 lety +1

      Cute

    • @chromebomb
      @chromebomb Před 3 lety +1

      I wanna try todo the loop

    • @ladder3257
      @ladder3257 Před 3 lety +1

      the only problem is it wouldnt be integrated :/

    • @TohaBgood2
      @TohaBgood2 Před rokem +2

      @@ladder3257 BART and Caltrain are already pretty well integrated. The largest problem was Caltrain's low frequency. If the Caltrain was late by more than a few minutes, BART simply couldn't wait for the transfer so you were screwed.
      But now that Caltrain is being electrified and brought almost to BART standards frequency-wise, this will be a perfect pairing. You'll be able to transfer between the two systems even easier.

    • @ladder3257
      @ladder3257 Před rokem +1

      @@TohaBgood2 that is true. big RIP to north bay though

  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly Před 3 lety +5

    Just at the start of the pandemic. Little did anyone know what the next 18 months would bring.

  • @emeraldkimble7602
    @emeraldkimble7602 Před rokem

    The movie fruitvale stTion was about bart

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth Před 3 lety +9

    Make the original vision a reality... again! Clearly it's needed and wanted by the citizens and yes develop it along with TOD's (Transit Oriented Developments) Hong Kong actually makes money on their trains via high density mixed use property developments adjacent to their stations...

    • @qjtvaddict
      @qjtvaddict Před 3 lety

      Hong Kong is unlivable look up cage homes

    • @Angela-cd9bj
      @Angela-cd9bj Před 2 lety +1

      Bart is doing that high density property development adjacent to stations too

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth Před 2 lety +1

      @@Angela-cd9bj But not nearly enough, fast enough... Too many NIMBY Karens blocking developments based on fantasies of living in a small town within a huge city... Good luck with that!

    • @stickynorth
      @stickynorth Před 2 lety

      @@qjtvaddict Go away racist troll!

    • @TohaBgood2
      @TohaBgood2 Před rokem

      @@stickynorth This! We need most of development both housing and office to be located right next to our transit stations if we want anyone to take transit.
      If you live thee miles away from transit and your job is located two more miles away from the closest station then you've just doubled your commute by taking transit.
      The only way to fix it is to simply allow development primarily at transit stations. We need to do this asap.

  • @zilongdiguo1
    @zilongdiguo1 Před 4 lety +3

    Dion is amazing.

  • @ger13nunyah56
    @ger13nunyah56 Před rokem

    😮

  • @socoman99
    @socoman99 Před rokem

    Boy, this didn't age well...

  • @fillup40
    @fillup40 Před 4 lety +2

    Good luck.

  • @Awesome_Aasim
    @Awesome_Aasim Před 2 lety +1

    No one needs to put BART over the GG Bridge. Just build another tube, call it the "Golden Gate Tube", and you can now serve North Bay customers. Of course that is easier said than done, but I don't see it as an impossible feat.

    • @Rubycon99
      @Rubycon99 Před 2 lety +1

      It would be extremely difficult to build a tube at the Golden Gate. Much more feasible to run them on the bridge.

  • @greatgordonfan7094
    @greatgordonfan7094 Před 3 lety +1

    What about the mysterious thomas wooden railway bart? A toy on which there is pretty much no info and only 3 low quality images.

  • @AussieEvil
    @AussieEvil Před 5 lety +9

    And still the North Bay gets screwed?

    • @ladder3257
      @ladder3257 Před 3 lety +2

      THANK YOU! i live in marin and car is the only option besides golden gate transit :/

  • @qjtvaddict
    @qjtvaddict Před 4 lety

    Add in a bridge bro

  • @topnotch97
    @topnotch97 Před 5 lety +5

    how about build the 2nd transbay tube underneath San Mateo bridge.
    how about converting the under utilized VTA light rail into BART. the one running to Santa Theresa should become BART.

    • @TheCloakedTiger
      @TheCloakedTiger Před 4 lety +2

      June 13th your wish comes true! BART will finally connect with VTA! :)

    • @qjtvaddict
      @qjtvaddict Před 4 lety +1

      Too expensive just make the light rail go where people want to go plus BART now links to the VTA light rail and rapid 523/500 buses

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 Před rokem

    there si not future for those awho dont ahrd in theusa!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you dont subjet yorusefl to the nation state!!!!!!!!!! adn work ahrd with grit and finish all your work and assingments then youll be arrested or fried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! two exams for stats and 8 quizzes and one exams for environment two reading quizzes!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 Před rokem

    ai bussew ton ceom fr onaoer 5y ears and subwya ownt come fro naother 2 years. one miel 90 mintues 40 mitnues a card and key to get to school and back everyday on tuesday and thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @randomoverpopulatedworldid3286

    bart fee's should be based on income

  • @brentduanefoster
    @brentduanefoster Před rokem

    This is what happens when you DON’T have a vision for the future. You end up having to pay more down the line.

    • @TohaBgood2
      @TohaBgood2 Před rokem +1

      They had a very good vision for the future. The Karens and Kens of yesteryear prevented it from being built. They blocked a ton of lines and prevented transit oriented development at the stations. They all wanted to drive to BART so we got what we got.
      It's not enough to have a good vision, you also need the people's support for it to be implemented.

    • @brentduanefoster
      @brentduanefoster Před rokem

      @@TohaBgood2 That’s what I meant, actually. The Bay Area could’ve had a public transportation that rivaled New York City. But, the NIMBYS of that time couldn’t see it.

  • @jayjohn9680
    @jayjohn9680 Před 3 lety +1

    VTA should go north. Its faster than bart. Its better than bart in every way. Thank GOODNESS it didn’t expand that garbage.

    • @ladder3257
      @ladder3257 Před 3 lety +1

      vta is actually a top speed of 55 mph. bart is almost 95 (clocked it before)

    • @jayjohn9680
      @jayjohn9680 Před 3 lety

      @@ladder3257 But the waiting time of 20-30 minutes, constant delays, getting into the station and just the plain hassle of BART is the problem.

    • @ladder3257
      @ladder3257 Před 3 lety

      @@jayjohn9680 the ‘hassle’ is there but it’s not like it isn’t with vta and the speed def makes up a lot of ground that you say is lost from the hassle

    • @jayjohn9680
      @jayjohn9680 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ladder3257 Your reply is cool and all but when Im going there and upon handing a ticket I needed help with the agent is literally yelling at me and other agents pester paying passengers while a guys aggressively panhandling inside a station for hours on end… VTA is just hands down a better experience.

    • @ladder3257
      @ladder3257 Před 3 lety

      @@jayjohn9680 vta is more comfortable for sure. not as practical though, the expensiveness and speed hurts it

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 Před rokem

    i smoke a lot cigarreetes cigars and tobacco pipes.

  • @paulnewsom7629
    @paulnewsom7629 Před 4 lety

    One Dead System since the 90s past Worthless and A General Ripoff