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50 years of BART: Inside the original BART cars
In celebration of BART’s 50th Anniversary this year, we’re looking back at the transit system’s five decades of service and innovation in a new series of stories. BART celebrates 50 years on Sept. 11, 2022. Upholstered seats, gold plush carpet, tinted picture windows – the original BART cars were the epitome
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BART's Environmental Credentials
Celebrate Earth Day by helping keep our sky blueAs we celebrate Earth Day this April, we can all do our part to save energy and protect the environment. An easy and inexpensive way to start is by riding BART. Fast, Efficient, Energized A typical car gets about 21 miles per gallon. During peak hours BART is 12
BART turns 50
State created BART on June 4, 1957 BART is celebrating a major milestone. Fifty years ago-on June 4, 1957-the California State Legislature and the governor took a preemptive strike against the massive influx of cars and people moving into the Bay Area after World War II and officially created the San
BART Safety Tips
To help keep you safe, BART has more than 4,000 working cameras throughout our system and we are increasingpolice presence.Please follow these important safety tips while traveling on BART: Download the free BART Watch App: it lets you send a private text to BART Police dispatch. Save the number for BART
50 years of BART: Everything found in BART’s 30-year-old time capsule
Thirty years ago, on BART’s twentieth anniversary, we buried a time capsule deep in the ground at Lake Merritt Station and Plaza in Oakland.
Until recently, only BART employees from three decades ago knew what lay inside. But, on the occasion of our 50th anniversary, BART recently pulled the time capsule from the earth and peered inside.
The silver metal container stands about two-feet-high. When we unburied it, we discovered inside 60 items. The contents include objects acquired from the inception of BART onwards, with plenty of 20th anniversary merch. There was dirt from the Market St. Subway groundbreaking in 1967. There was a survey marker from BART’s construction. And, befitting the 90s era, a cassette, VHS, and magnetic tape containing source code for BART’s old Computer Automatic Block System.
Some train equipment made it in the capsule, wedged among t-shirts and labor agreements, business cards and employee signatures. Among the equipment was a circuit board, a thyristor that controls motor current, and Automatic Fare Collection equipment that made the fare gates and ticket machines work.
In all, the time capsule reminds us of not just BART’s history, but the history of the Bay Area at-large. It transports us back in time – to an age of Tamagotchi and Nirvana – and helps us look toward the future. BART is, after all, burying a time capsule to be opened in 25 years, on our 75th anniversary. On Saturday, Sept. 10, public officials took to the stage at Lake Merritt Station and Plaza to deposit items in this new time capsule. The additions included a Clipper card, Fleet of the Future socks, a Not One More Girl poster, a BART 50th t-shirt, a resolution from 1992, a personal handstrap, a 2022 BART Pride sticker, a BART pandemic mask, some of the best tweets from the BART Twitter account, and a 50th anniversary pin given to employees for the occasion.
Look through the above slideshow for some highlights from the 1992 time capsule and click here for a full catalogue of the items held within.
BART to SFO
2003: BART arrives at SFO as the extension from Colma opens. Service also begins to Millbrae, connecting BART with Caltrain.