Bay Area Rapid Transit

History
Development and origin
Main article: History Bay Area Rapid Transit
Some of the Bay Area Rapid current coverage area Transit System was once served by the electrified tram and suburban rail system called the dominant system. This system of early twentieth century once had to regulate the trans-bay traffic through the lower deck of Bay Bridge. A mid 1950 the entire system had been dismantled in favor of the road trip using cars and buses – given the explosive growth of the construction of the highway. New rapid transit system was proposed to occupy the key place of the system during the 1940s, and formal planning for which began in the decade 1950. Some funding was secured for the BART system in 1959, and construction began a year later. The rail passenger service began the first few stretches of track in September 1972. The new BART system was hailed by some authorities as an important step forward in underground technology.
However, there were doubts about the safety of the BART system and the enormous expenditure necessary for the construction of the BART network. Praise for the new transport system was not unanimous at first.
Recent history
Statistics for 2006
Number of vehicles
670
initial system cost
One billion $ 1.6
Cost equivalent in 2004 dollars (replacement cost)
$ 15,000,000,000
Hourly passenger capacity
15 000
Maximum daily capacity
360 000
Average weekday passengers
322 965
The gross annual income rates
$ 233,650,000
Annual costs
$ 581,810,000
Annual profits (losses)
($ 300 million)
Rail passenger cost per mile (excluding capital expenditures)
$ 0323
Recent data from a study which, along with some Bay Area freeways, some of General BART structures could be extensive damage and, potentially, could collapse if an earthquake of great magnitude, which is expected to be highly likely to occur in the Bay Area over the next 30 years. Seismic wide adaptation will be necessary to address many of these weaknesses, but one in particular, the penetration of the Hayward Fault Zone by the Berkeley Hills tunnel, leave it for the correction after a crippling earthquake, with consequences for the trains in transit, its operators, and passengers left to chance.
In May 2004, BART became the transit system for the first time in the nation to offer mobile phone communication passengers of all providers of wireless services in its subways. This is in contrast with other systems in the United States, which, while having some cell phone service, do not provide passengers from all major mobile operators. The service was made available to Verizon customers Wireless, Sprint / Nextel, AT & T Mobility and T-Mobile within and between the four seasons in San Francisco Market Street from the Civic Center Embarcadero. In 2005, coverage was made available between Balboa Park and Mission San 16. In July 2008, the cellular telephone network, the fifth area of the bay, MetroPCS, was added. In December 2009, service was expanded to include the Transbay tube, thus providing a continuous cell phone coverage between West Oakland and Balboa Park. Service is expected to be added in the center of Oakland, Berkeley and the Berkeley Hills tunnel at the end of the third quarter of 2010. Coverage is expected to be added to South San Francisco and San Bruno in 2011. The aim is to provide continuous mobile phone and Internet service throughout the BART system.
As of February 20, 2007 BART entered into an agreement to allow beta testing WiFi Internet access for passengers in the BART system. We initially included four stations in downtown San Francisco; Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell and Civic Center. To date over 30,000 users have used the service. The testing and demonstration are also included especially testing ground for the trains on the track at Hayward BART in the test. The tests and the deployment has been extended in the underground pipes of interconnection between the four seasons center and more. The successful demonstration and evidence provided for a 10-year contract with WiFi Rail, Inc. for services throughout the BART right of way (ROW).
During the months of May 2008 and July 2008 the WiFi service was expanded to include the Transbay Tube and now awaits the BART cars that have the necessary equipment to benefit WiFi access to the network.
BART Since mid 1990, has been trying to modernize its aging 30-year-old. The rehabilitation of the said fleet form part of this upgrade, at present, fire alarms, sprinkler systems, water, yellow domes tactile platform edge, and tiles Cemented rubber-Mat is being installed. Raw black tiles on the edge of the platform marks the location of the door to board trains, allowing passengers to wait in the appropriate places for the train, instead of waiting until the train arrives to find out where to board. All faregates and vending machines have also been completely replaced.
In the spring of 2007, BART experimented with a system of panels advertisement placed in the Transbay tube, and when looking at the windows drivers saw what seemed be a commercial move as "Reebok's Run Easy" campaign.
On April 10, 2007, BART General Manager Tom Margrid, who has been chief BART for eleven years, announced his retirement.
In late May 2007, BART has declared its intention to improve off-peak (night and weekends) intervals for each line only 15 minutes. Current intervals of 20 minutes at this time is seen as a psychological barrier for passengers. June 2007, BART temporarily reversed its position by stating that shorten waiting times can not happen due to a budget deficit of $ 900,000 of income status. However, BART finally confirmed plan the implementation of the January 1, 2008.
Moreover, in June 2007, BART suddenly removed all references to the implementation of TransLink payment system from its website. The BART spokesman said Marty Moran (via email) that TransLink can now be done as soon as late 2007. Application TransLink on BART was further delayed due to disputes regarding the processing of charges between the MTC and BART. TransLink was planned to be launched simultaneously BART, SF Muni and Caltrain in the spring of 2008. TransLink access is in force in May 2009.
As BART celebrated the 50th anniversary of its creation by the state legislature the organization announced its business plans for the next 50 years. His vision includes the addition of a pipe diameter of four below transbay San Francisco Bay, running parallel and south of the existing tunnel and emerge at the Transbay Transit Terminal to provide connecting service to Caltrain and the possible future of California's high-speed rail system. The four-bore tunnel would provide two tunnels for BART and two tunnels to conventional / High-speed rail. BART plan focus is on improving service and reliability in its core system (where the density and the number of users is higher) extensions rather than in the distant suburbs. These strategies include: a line that continues from the Transbay Terminal through the South-of-Market, to the Van Ness north and ends at the west of San Francisco along the Geary corridor, the presidio, or Playa Norte, a line along Interstate 680 corridors, and fourth set of railroad tracks through Oakland.
Numerous changes in the rail service is implemented from January 1, 2008. Among the changes, the trains on the line Pittsburg / Bay Point extended its service to the airport of San Francisco-Oakland (SFO) station (at all hours of operation), but not continue with the end of the line in Millbrae. (Only a few late night Pittsburg / Bay Point to Millbrae trains continued after stopping at the SFO airport station). During weekdays (until 7:00 pm), trains on the Richmond line continues into the Millbrae station, but without the SFO airport station, during weeknights and weekends, trains on the Dublin / Pleasanton line followed Millbrae, but also ignore the SFO airport station). All this meant that it would not be a direct train from the SFO airport and Millbrae, unsettling "Caltrain" passengers wishing to travel to the SFO airport. Management BART discontinued this direct rail link, citing low ridership between the airport and Millbrae SFO. However, implemented in timely transfer station San Bruno for passengers traveling from the airport to SFO Millbrae.
With budget constraints continue, it is necessary to reduce the BART service beyond Daly City. As of September 14, 2009, the following changes have taken place: The Pittsburg / Bay Point Line still end up in the SFO from Monday to Friday to 7:00 pm. After 7:00 pm and all day weekends and holidays, service will extend to Millbrae. The Dublin / Pleasanton line no longer serve enlargement, instead of ending up in Daly City station.
In 2008, BART announced that it would install solar energy systems on the roofs of railway yards and maintenance facilities in Richmond and Hayward, as well as the ports of cars with solar panels on the roof in Orinda station. The Council regretted not being able to install everywhere, but stated that Orinda was the only station with enough sun so they can make money from the project.
The current system
Background
A picture rails third parties entering into the BART system. Note how the third rail instead changes from the train entered the station and cross the footbridge crossing the trail. Letter from the walkway on the left side of the trail in the distance, which is the walkway for the aerial trail leading to Daly City station again the third rail positioned opposite of this walkway.
BART covers 104 miles (167 km) of track and 43 stations. The system uses a controversial 5 feet 6 inches (1676 mm) wide broad gauge, compared with the August 4, 1912 feet (1,435 mm) standard gauge predominantly found in the railway systems in the United States. This is the only transit system in the United States using this indicator. The cars are wider than normal transit equipment, but as wide as standard gauge passenger cars North America. The downside is that all maintenance and support equipment must be tailored. Trains can reach a maximum speed of centralized control 80 mph (130 km / h) and provided an average speed of the entire system of 33 mph (53 km / h) with the station twenty-second stop time (dwell). The trains operate at a minimum length of three cars by the guidelines of California Public Utilities Commission with a maximum length of 10 cars, which extends around 700 feet (213 m) length of a platform. The maximum length of 710 feet (216 m), BART has the longest length of any train Metrorail system in the Los United States. The system also features car widths of 10.5 feet (3.2 m) (the same width as an Amtrak Metroliner), a maximum slope of four percent, and a minimum curve radius of 394 feet (120 m) on main lines.
The electric current is supplied to the trains over a third rail, the position that alternates in relation to the context of the train. Within seasons, the third rail is always on the side farthest away from the passenger platforms. This design feature eliminates the danger of a passenger or directly enter the third rail, or stepping on it to go back up to the platform if a fall. At ground level traces, the third rail alternates from one side of the track to the falls of others, always in the third lane to allow emergency evacuation through traces.
Underground tunnels and aerial structures have Transbay tube evacuation corridors and hallways to allow for train evacuation without exposing passengers easy contact inadvertently with the third rail, which is so far from these gateways as possible. The tension in the steel rail is 1000 volts third DC, so there are warnings throughout the system for passengers of their danger. In addition, BART stations warning signs within each car of the third rail contact lane four paddle-like shoes protruding from the bottom of each vehicle by the carriages of a train wheel. Other third-rail metro systems in the U.S. boosted used a lower voltage.
Many of the original 1970s the system was BART stations, especially the air stations, the characteristic architecture simple, brutal.
The number of passenger levels
The number of passenger records have been established in regional scale considered in the study events such as the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. The records include a record 224 500 Sunday, which coincided with a baseball game in Oakland Athletics, and a record of 405.4 thousand days of week set September 8, 2008, when both the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Raiders had home games. The record for a week was 2.3178 million passengers between June 23 and June 29, 2008. This broke the previous all time high of 2.3018 million achieved during the closure of the Bay Bridge. BART set an absolute record day 442 000 rides on Thursday, October 29, 2009, following the closure of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge due to the lack of structural repair.
Problems with Segways BART
After several high profile incidents involving Segways, including an incident in which a Segway was hit by a train after falling to the tracks, BART's banned for 45 days until they could regroup and establish a plan to mediate the issue. The consensus was the institution of rules similar to bicycles, where the Segways will be disabled during commute hours, except for persons with disabilities and that the devices could not be on or traveled beyond gate rate similar to the rules for all wheeled devices such as skateboards and scooters. In addition, a system has been established with the registration requirement to be used in the system.
Pathways
All routes pass through the city of Oakland, and all but the route of Fremont Richmond pass through the Transbay Tube in San Francisco and beyond Daly City. Most segments of the BART system trains carry more than one route.
Trains run regularly into five routes. Unlike rapid transit and most rail systems worldwide, BART lines are usually not referred to by shorthand designations. Although the lines have been color consistently in the BART system map for over a decade, are only occasionally referred to officially by color names, and only rarely refers and in this way by members of the public (for example, the "Red Line").
In contrast, the five BART lines are usually identified in the maps and schedules for the names of its terms:
Fremont Daly City, after a former Western Pacific Railroad right of way from Fremont to Oakland, operates Monday to Saturday from day to evening.
Dublin / Pleasanton Daly City, following Interstate-580 through Castro Valley to San Leandro, where it meets the line Fremont, Richmond, continuing in San Francisco.
Pittsburg / Bay Point SFO / Millbrae, after SR 4, former Sacramento Northern Railroad right of way, and SR 24 from Bay Point Oakland, extending beyond Daly City to San Francisco International Airport. On weekdays and weekends, this line turns around at the airport to continue in Millbrae.
Richmond Daly City / Millbrae, following a former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway right of way from Richmond to Berkeley, and extends beyond Millbrae Daly City Monday to Friday during the day in the afternoon. On Saturdays, the line operates at Daly City.
Richmond Fremont, coinciding with the line of Richmond Millbrae and the line of Fremont Daly City and Oakland between its terminals, and operates every day.
San Francisco's line through a former Daly City Millbrae following Southern Pacific Railroad right of way, which is also served by Caltrain San Bruno beyond.
Office hours
The BART system consists of five lines, but most of the network consists of more than one line on the same track. The trains on each line historically ran every fifteen minutes during the week and twenty minutes during the evenings, weekends and holidays, however, from a given station could be served by a maximum of four lines, may have service as often as every three or four minutes. However, the system is closed for four hours each night for maintenance, reopening 4:00 am every morning except Sundays.
As of January 1, 2008, service in each line is at intervals of 15 minutes except Saturdays between 6:00 am to 7:00 pm, when the service is every 20 minutes. Also effective January 1, 2008, BART service begins around 4:00 am on weekdays, 6:00 am on Saturdays, and 8:00 am Sunday. Service every day ends around midnight with the scheduled closure of the station for the last train at the station. Two of the five lines, the Millbraeichmond and SF / Daly Cityremont lines, not at night (after 7 pm) or Sunday service, but all stations are accessible through the transfer of the other lines. All Night network service is available when Bart is closed. All but six BART stations are served (and Caltrain eight stations). BART tickets are not accepted on these buses, and each of the four bus systems charge their own rates, which can be up to $ 3.50, a Four travel system can cost as much as $ 9.50 from 2007.
Rates
Vending machines at the Powell Street station
The rates in BART are comparable to those of commuter rail systems and are superior to those of most of the meters, especially for long trips. The fee is based on a formula which takes into account both the length and speed of travel. A surcharge is added for trips journey through the Transbay Tube at San Francisco International Airport, or through County San Mateo, which is not a member of BART. Historically and until recently, passengers have used paper tickets rechargeable-plastic-compound, in which charges are stored through a magnetic stripe, to enter and exit the system (a similar magnetic stripe ticketing system used in Washington's Metro Washington, DC). The output faregate prints the remaining balance on the ticket each time the passenger exits the station. A paper ticket can be filled in a ticket machine, the remaining balance any ticket can be applied to the purchase of a new one, or a card is simply captured by the exit door when the balance reaches zero, a number of low-value cards can be combined to create a card of higher value, but only in certain ticket exchange sites that are in some BART stations. BART is based on the unused ticket values in particular client discards low value cards as a source of income, approximated by some to be as high as $ 9.9 million.
A standard fare BART ticket. Notification of the initial purchase price in parallel to the magnetic strip and card balance printed on the left, updated every outing. Images greater income, a blue ticket, new style, and tickets to other colors are found here.
A stored value smart card fare system, called TransLink card Smart, was released in the fall of 2009. This program was released to the public in autumn 2006 with the launch of AC Transit, Dumbarton Express, lines and Golden Gate Transit. Previously promoted BART EZ Rider card, a pilot program that uses technology similar in design to the TransLink card. Both are contactless smart cards, and contain stored value which can be used for payment of fee. BART contract with Cubic Transportation Systems to replace all those faregates with smart card readers inherently installed. The EZ Rider program is expected to last until September 2010.
BART The minimum rate of $ 1.75 is charged for travel 6 miles (9.7 km), as a journey between two adjacent stations Berkeley. The maximum return fare including all possible charges is $ 10.90, 51 miles (82 km) journey between the point of Pittsburgh / Bay and San Francisco International Airport. The trip far away as possible, of Pittsburg / Bay Point to Millbrae, it costs less due to the additional charge for airport travel. Passengers without a ticket enough to complete their journey AddFare must use a machine to pay the remaining balance to leave the station. Due to the amount of basic rate circulate between the BART station in downtown San Francisco on BART costs 25 cents less than it does to travel to the light rail system itself, the underground MUNI, which is usually slower in covering the same distance. However, about two-MUNI permits full hours of walking, including transfers to other MUNI vehicles, while BART charges $ 1.75 for a single trip. There are several peculiarities in the tariff system due to a subsidy provided to drivers to travel between some outlying stations. For example, for a tour of Dublin / Pleasanton to Fremont, is less expensive to leave the station at the point of transfer, Bay Fair, and re-enter the station, instead of staying on the platform as two basic rates charged $ 1.75 instead of $ 4.35 fee from beginning to end.
BART uses a of five different colors regular fare tickets, special rates and discount rate to select the groups as follows:
Azul General tickets: the type most common, high-value includes discount tickets
Red People with disabilities and tickets children 4-12 years: 62.5% discount, ID required special (children under 4 travel free)
Green tickets over 65 years and over: 62.5% discount, proof of the age required to purchase
Student Orange tickets: special, restricted use 50% ticket discount for students aged 13-18 currently enrolled in secondary or middle school
BART also flash special high value ticket for 'step' privileges with regional transit agencies, including MUNI buses.
New EZ Rider card program Plastic smart fare eventually be replaced by the Phase II Program TransLink
EZ Rider Fare Card
Unlike most systems transit in the United States, Bart does not have an unlimited ride passes are available and passengers must pay for each trip they take. The discount is only provided to the public a discount of 6.25% when "high-value tickets" are purchased with the values of rate of $ 48 and $ 64, priced at $ 45 and $ 60 respectively. Capitol Amtrak and the San Joaquin Corridor trains to sell $ 10 BART tickets on board the cars of coffee for only $ 8, resulting in a discount of 20%. A discount of 62.5% is provided the elderly, the disabled, and children age 5-12 years. Middle and high school students May 13-18 get a 50% discount if your school participates BART in the program, however, these tickets are intended for use only between the student's home station and the station of the school and transportation to and from school events. However, these limitations do not apply under any way and students should behave on the honor system. Tickets are only usable on weekdays, a restriction is imposed by the fare gates. BART tickets also enjoy a bonus last trip where if the remaining value exceeds $ 0.05, the ticket can be used one last time for a trip of any distance. Most discount tickets must be purchased at selected suppliers and vending machines. Bart Tickets can be purchased in addition to the machines. In particular, middle and high school entries are usually sold in the schools.
Family members of employees receive special BART BART passes and can walk free of charge by showing their ID card photo and employee of the BART station. Employees of airlines they have to work at San Francisco International Airport BART will receive a discount rate of 25%, but non-airline employees who do the same will receive no discount.
door entry doors with triangular orange backed by a Spare the air days
Rates are set by the station agent, who oversees the activity fee at the gates adjacent to the window and door of another rate through closed circuit television and screens faregate state located in the stand of the agent. All stations have at least one agent at all times. Despite this, the fraud rate occasionally occurs, usually as a result of people enter and exit through the emergency exit door, allowing for non-emergence of passengers with bicycles, wheelchairs, and carrying luggage. It also occurs with lifts, which in some places lead the ticket area unticketed area.
There is little coordination between BART fares and bodies around. Some agencies accept BART Plus pass, which cost between $ 38 and $ 71 per month, the holders of permits to pass Use BART and bus connection. In particular, AC Transit left the program due to the small amount of reimbursement they received from BART. Another program coordination rates allows monthly pass holders for adult San Francisco Municipal Railway train traveling on BART within San Francisco for free (with no credit applies to travel outside the city). The city of San Francisco BART pays $ 0.87 for each journey made under this agreement. For riders who are not in possession of these passes, usually only a token discount ($ 25 to $ 50) to passengers to and from the transfer of trains transit modes. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority BART honor for a local transfer fee credit ($ 0.50 to $ 1.75) to the 120, 140, 180 and 181 trans-county express lines departing from the Fremont BART station, but all pilots are required to land in Santa Clara County. No credit applied when traveling to Station Fremont BART.
Proposals to simplify the tariff structure abound. At one end, a flat rate that does not take into account the distance has been proposed by BART director Joel Keller. The lower end includes the creation of a simplified structure that would lead to price bands or zones. The implementation of either scheme degrade the use of distance-based rates and shifting the burden of selling fees recovery for urban corridors in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, and away suburban corridors in eastern Contra Costa, Alameda del Sur, and San Mateo, where the density is lower and therefore operating costs are higher.
Services connecting
AC Transit bus stop at the station in the Bay Fair
BART has direct connections to two regional railway Postal Service, which offers a service between San Francisco, San Jose and Gilroy, in the Millbrae Station and Amtrak's Capitol Corridor, which stretches from Sacramento to San Jose in the Richmond and Coliseum / Oakland Airport station. A third connection of the Capitol Corridor in the Union City station is planned as part of a larger Dumbarton Rail Corridor Project to connect Union City, Fremont, and Newark to different destinations peninsula through Dumbarton railroad bridge. BART is the managing body of the Capitol Corridor 2010.
BART connects to San Francisco local light rail system, the Muni Metro. The level of the upper airway Market Street subway BART, originally designed for the lines to Marin County, [citation needed] was delivered to Muni and both agencies share the Embarcadero, Montgomery Street, Powell and stations the Civic Center. Some Muni Metro lines connect with (or pass by) the BART system in Balboa Park and Glen Park stations.
Other services connect to BART including Emery Go Round (Emeryville) WestCAT (north-west Contra Costa County), Benicia Transit (Benicia), Union City Transit (Union City) and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA, in Silicon Valley).
BART hosts carsharing stations in many places, a program pioneered by City CarShare. Passengers can transfer to BART and complete their travel by car. BART has begun offering airport parking long term through an external provider in most the seasons of the East Bay. Travelers should make a reservation on-line in advance and pay the daily fee of $ 5 before they can leave their cars in the parking lot BART.
Casual carpools have been formed in North Berkeley station and near the site of El Cerrito Del Norte. The lots are convenient because most carpoolers to use public transport back to their final destination. However, because of the way BART parking fees, passengers can park in most BART batch without having to pay a fee.
Connecting bus services through
Some of the transit bus services connect to BART, which while managed by separate agencies are integral to the proper functioning of the system. The primary providers include San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), Alameda-Contra Costa Transit (AC Transit), San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans), the Central Authority of Contra Costa Transit (County Connection), and the Golden Bridge Gate, Highway and Transportation District (Golden Gate Transit). Until 1997, BART ran its own "BART Express bus connection, which was developed east of Alameda County and the Far East and western areas of Contra Costa County, these routes have been attributed to the later sub-regional transportation agencies, such and Tri-Delta Transit and the Livermore Amador Valley Transit Authority (Wheels) or, in the case of Dublin / Pleasanton service, replaced by a complete extension of BART.
BART is connected to Oakland International Airport with our AirBART buses that bring passengers to and from the Coliseum BART station to Oakland Airport. These buses are operated by BART and accept exact change BART fare card, as well as the exact change. BART also connects to the San Francisco International Airport, although in this case the train actually enters the airport shuttle directly and is necessary, but the connections are available to AirTrain for not departing or arriving from the international terminal.
The bus service connecting the University of California, Berkeley BART station in Berkeley was once called Humphrey Go-BART, a spoonerism the famous actor and director of Humphrey Bogart. It has since been replaced by a number of scheduled bus routes and AC Transit bus routes operated by university.
Organisation and management
Governance
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District is a special government agency created by the State of California consisting of Alameda County, Contra Costa County and the City and County of San Francisco. San Mateo County, home to six BART stations, is not part of the BART District. It is governed by a Board of Directors elected to each of the nine directors who represent a specific geographic area within the BART district. BART has its own strength police.
While the district includes all cities and communities in their jurisdiction, some of these cities do not have stations on the BART system. That has caused tension between property owners in cities such as Livermore BART taxpayers, but must travel outside the city to receive a service from BART. In areas such as Fremont, most passengers do not travel in the direction it would take BART (many Fremonters trip to San Jose where there is currently no BART service). This is alleviated with the completion of a project to BART-extension-San Jose.
However, some cities and towns are close enough to the cities with BART stations that residents travel through a bus or car to the nearby BART station. Emeryville, for example, has no BART service, but has a free shuttle service, the Emery-Go-Round, that takes passengers to the nearby MacArthur station in Oakland. Similarly, Albany does not have a BART station itself. City residents can go North of Berkeley (in Alameda County) or El Cerrito Plaza (in Contra Costa County) service stations. For those wishing to drive their cars to the stations instead, many BART stations offer many types of parking options.
Budget
In 2005, BART requires about U.S. $ 300 million in funds after tariffs. About 37% of costs was maintained, 29% of the actual transport operations, 24% for general administration, up 8% to the police, and 4% to construction and engineering. In 2005, 53% of the budget comes from rates, the 32% tax and 15% other sources, including advertising, lease the space station retail and parking. BART cash ratio of recovery of 53% is relatively high for a U.S. agency transport operating in public so long distances with high frequency (in comparison, see the article on farebox recovery).
General Manager
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Billy Stokes
1975 – 1978
Frank C. Herring
1979 – 1988
Keith Bernard
1989 – 1994
Frank Wilson
1994 – 1996
Richard A. White
1996 – 2007
Tom Margrid
2007 – Present
Dorothy Dugger
Chief Spokesman
1972 – 2004
Micro Healy
2004 – present
Linton Johnson
Rolling stock
Renewed A car interior with carpeted floors.
C1 inside a car with an improved version of the spray-on soil compounds.
The interior of a car C2 with carpeting. A folding seat is visible on the left.
A show car (as amended by C2 car) interior with vinyl flooring blue. The car has a designated space for bicycles in the area normally reserved for passengers in wheelchairs, forward-facing seat on the left side of the car has been removed passengers with bicycles, in turn, the aisle seat, facing the right side near the operator's cab has been removed to passengers in wheelchairs. This car also has hand straps, unlike the other BART train cars.
BART operates four types of cars, built from three separate orders, totaling of 669 cars.
To run a typical work in the morning peak, requires 579 BART cars. Of these, 541 are scheduled to be on active duty and another 38 used to construct four extra trains (essential to keep the service time). At one point, the remaining 90 cars in for repair, maintenance or some type of work proposed amendment.
Cars A and B cars were built from 1968 to 1971 by Rohr Industries, an aerospace manufacturing company I had just made its foray into manufacturing of mass transportation, technical flaunting unproven design of the space age. The cars were designed as a leader or just behind the cars, with equipment operator fiberglass cab train control housing and two-way BART system communication. The cars are characterized by an aerodynamic advantage leader in expanding 5 feet (1.52 m) longer than his siblings B and C-car. A comfortable cars 72 seated passengers and crushing load, 150 passengers. B cars are the operator's cab and is not used in the center of trains to carry passengers only, cars B has the same passenger capacity than cars A. Currently, BART operates 59 vehicles 380 A and B cars. livery BART has remained effectively unchanged throughout history.
The C cars were built by Alstom, between 1987 and 1989. C cars have a booth operator fiberglass and similar control and communications equipment as the cars, but Unlike a car, do not have the aerodynamic nose design, which allows cars to be used as media. The twofold purpose of the car C can accelerate changes train size, without having to move the train at a switching yard. C car that comfortably seats 64 (4 places were lost compared to the A / B cars by removing one row of seats to accommodate the operator's cab and four additional seats were lost by the elimination of a pair of seats along the left side door forward on each side to provide space for wheelchairs) and under crush load capacity of 150 passengers. The last order, Morrison-Knudsen (now Washington Group International), C2 was for vehicles, which are essentially the same as C cars, but the option of an upgrade, inside a third-generation blue / gray ground, in contrast to the previous blue and brown. Cameras CCTV in cars C2 are also triangular, compared to the rectangular shape of the camera in a car C1. C2 car have seats near the door hinged on the left side forward to accommodate passengers wheelchairs, and the red lights on the posts near the door to warn the deaf as the doors are closing. C2 cars comfortably seat 68 passengers (including flip-up seats), and under crush load can carry 150 passengers. Since the purchase of C2S, the original C cars are also known as C1 cars. Currently, BART operates 150 C1 C2 cars and 80 cars.
In 1995, BART contracted with ADtranz (acquired by Bombardier Transportation in 2001) for the renewal and revision of the original 439 Rohr-A and B-cars the update of the old vintage brown cloth seats to seats polyurethane less toxic and easier to clean, light blue in use today and bring the cars in general, at the same level of services within the fleet and C2. Rohr cars also were reconstructed ADtranz three-phase alternating current (AC) traction motors Investor IGBT, model 1507C. The seven-year project was completed in 2002. All BART car seats are upholstered and almost all cars are carpeted except for some C1 and / or car C2. Because one of the original design goals was for all BART riders to sit, older cars have fewer provisions such as grab bars for standing passengers. Flip-seats (found in cars C2) were excluded from the reform (reducing seating capacity 72-68), to provide designated areas for luggage, wheelchairs and bicycles. Consequently, the original C (C1 or) Cars are the oldest interior design, since they have not been renovated and recently acquired enough to have the "newer" convenience features, such as lack of vertical bars supporting in the center of the car and have no post at red lights to warn of closing doors. However, the carpeting in most cars C1 was replaced by an experimental spray-on composite floors after passengers complained that the cars were filthy.
The A, B, C and cars are all three-digit numbers given in the beginning, but when renovated 1000 was added to the number of each individual A / B cars (cars, for example 633 would become 1633). C2 cars are numbered in the series of 2500; the C/C1 cars still have a 3-digit number.
Before reconstruction, Direct Current (DC) traction motors used in cars BART Rohr 439 were built by Westinghouse, the same company that also built the system of automatic train control BART. The Westinghouse traction motors are models 1463 helicopter controls. Westinghouse DC motors are still in use in the C Alstom (C1) and C2 cars Morrison-Knudsen. The engines were taken from the Rohr cars during rehabilitation remained the replacement engines for use in vehicles C1 and C2. Other systems under the car also built by Westinghouse 439 Rohr cars in BART before rehabilitation is the power box auxiliary hydraulic pumps for the brakes, suspension and control systems brake (which were part of the basic logic drive that was mounted on the switch control semiconductor). The air conditioning system in cars Rohr BART before rehabilitation were built by Thermo King, when she was a subsidiary of Westinghouse (Thermo King is now a subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand). The current HVAC systems the renovated Rohr-built Gen 1 cars were built by Westcode.
Comparison with other rail transit systems
Main article: Rapid Transit
BART, like other transit systems around the same time, tried to connect suburbs with work centers in Oakland and San Francisco by construction of the lines parallel to the travel routes established highway system in the region. Most of BART service area, as measured by the percentage of the length of the system consists of low-density suburbs. Unlike the subway in New York or London Underground, BART individual lines were not designed to provide local frequent service, as evidenced by the current system of maximum achievable advance of 13.33 minutes per line through the section quadruple spacing. Provides local Muni light rail and subway service within the city limits of San Francisco and runs with smaller intervals to BART. BART could in many ways is characterized as a nearby subway, "because it has many characteristics of a commuter rail system, including lines long that extend to the ends of the suburbs with large distances between most adjacent stations. However, in urban and downtown San Francisco Oakland, several lines converge, and Bart takes on the characteristics of an urban subway system, including short intervals and transfer opportunities to other lines.
BART could be considered to be more like a regional rail service, such as the S-Bahn in Berlin or Paris RER. However, Bart also has all the qualities and services of a subway system, including the propulsion of an electrified third rail, exclusive right-of-way drop-frequent intervals in urban service areas and access prepaid fare card. urban stations are as close as half a mile (800 m) apart and have combined two and a half to five-minute intervals during peak hours. These factors contribute to the consideration of Bart as a hybrid system of metro-suburban, which function as a system of Metrorail in the financial district of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, and a commuter rail in suburban areas of the region.
future actions
A computer graphics representation of what the new BART car will look like.
To expedite service, BART is preparing to introduce new vehicles, three doors. BART plans to start buying cars new in 2010, when debt has been paid capital of others and work for the track car, with the first 10 drivers cars arriving for testing in 2014. The order has 200 car base with two additional option orders for 250 cars each for a total 700 vehicles to completely replace the original fleet. All 700 cars must arrive before 2024. There are two options, one for the expansion of the fleet in general, and the other for the expansion of San Jose, with 150 cars each. If all options are exercised, the total number of new BART cars 1000 cars.
Future expansion and extension
Main article: Area Bay Transit Rapid expansion
The expansion projects of the Bay Area Rapid Transit have existed since the opening of the project. These projects include the Hot Springs area, the San Jose extension, the connector to Oakland airport, eBART, 'tBART': I-580/Tri-Valley Corridor "WBART ': I-80/West Corridor Contra Costa, and many filling stations along the route.
See also
San Francisco Bay Area portal
List of stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit
List of rapid transit systems
List of U.S. transit systems fast on the number of passengers
List of California railroads
Notes
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BART: a study of rail transit problems. California. Legislature. Assembly. Transportation Commission. 1973.
Richard Grefe (1976). A history of the key decisions in the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit. National Technical Information Service.
E. Hoachlander Gareth (1976). Bay Area Rapid Transit: who pays and who benefits?. University of California.
Further reading
Owen, Wilfred (1966). The transport problem metropolitan. Anchor Books.
Cervero, Robert (1998). The transit metropolis: a global research. Island Press. ISBN 1559635916.
University of California (1966). The Bay Area of San Francisco: its problems and future, volume 2. University of California.
External Links
Wikimedia Commons has multimedia about BART
BART – Official Website
Engineering Geology of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, 1964-1975
BART Map / Schedule Map / Calendar to use Google Maps API
BART widget, a trip planner for self-contained Mac OS X Dashboard
Another BARTsmart BART Widget, featuring schedules BART and news
Map of BART and rail network in simplified schematic rather than exact geographical
iSubwayMaps.com iPod, offering alternatives official earlier BART (Single map)
BART signs Typographica October 8, 2005 article about the typography of the signs BART
Service Transfers BART stations 511.org
Pictures of Bart world.nycsubway.org
network map (real distance)

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Double Back Bicycle Deck – Red $5.5 This deck contains 52 cards. Both sides of the cards have the red rider back imprinted on it.

Penetration Card Frame $2.97 Effect:Two cards are placed on either side of this plastic frame. A pencil penetrates both cards and the frame remains unharmed.

Professional Mental Photography Card Deck – Bicycle Brand Red $7.97 A mentally thought of card appears in a deck of blank cards. Instructions included.

Professional Mental Photography Card Deck – Bicycle Brand Blue $7.97 A mentally thought of card appears in a deck of blank cards. Instructions included.

Clearance Item – Cartoon Caper by Perry Maynard (Limited Stock) $8.5 The magician reaches into a pocket and pulls out a small leatherette wallet. Inside the wallet are three Looney Tune Playing Cards. The magician takes out the three playing cards, closes the wallet and places it aside. The magician then proceeds to show the three cards to the spectators noting, two of the cards are identical and the remaining card is different.The magician instructs one of the spectators to keep track of the odd card as he shuffles the three cards in from of him. Now the spectator is asked to point to the odd Looney Tune Card, and instantly the odd card vanishes from the packet and magically reappears back in the closed wallet.Includes leatherette wallet and all gaff cards necessary.

Invisible Quarters $18.25 Effect:Invisible quarters magically appear on top of the deck of cards covered by a clear drinking glass.

Deluxe Magic Set – 1 with 8 Different Magic Tricks $19.99 Number One in the Deluxe Magic Set series which contains, Long and Short Cards, Cups and Balls, Coin Paddle, My Favorite Rope Trick, Escape Rings, Ball and Vase, Rings and Coins, Fortune Cards. Ages 4 and up.

Wild Card $4 A classic of close-up magic!Effect:You show eight cards, all of which are the same value. One other card, the Wild Card, is of a different value. With a minimum of sleight of hand, the eight cards change in value to match the value of the Wild Card! This looks Wild!A Wild trick with a wild finish!

Elusive Joker $3.49 Effect:Three cards are shown. The center card is a Joker. The backs all match. Then the Joker disappears and another card takes its place!

Self Working Mental Magic $7.99 67 foolproof spectacular mental magic tricks that seem impossible, but are easy to perform. None of the tricks require long practice, supernormal dexterity, or complicated apparatus. Precise, easy-to-follow instructions and many helpful diagrams lead to quick mastery and effective performance of each. Perform mystifying mental magic in such categories as: Instant ESP Mind Reading with Cards, Mind Over Matter Book Tests, Psychic Secrets Slate Sorcery, Miracles with Cards Psychometry and more. Many of these tricks can be done with no prior preparation, and all involve easy-to-find materials: a deck of cards, coins, matches, dice, keys, chalk, etc.

Empire Fantastic 4 Card Magic Trick $10.5 Two sheets of cardboard are shown and rubber banded together. The card boards are placed on top of four cards and one card disappears, then reappears between the two card boards.

Professional Svengali Deck – Bicycle Brand Blue $5.5 Effect:A card is selected and returned to the pack which is then shuffled. The magician then feels the backs of the cards one at a time and is able to find the selected card by sensing which card is warmer from the spectators touch! The selected card is then shuffled into the pack again only to jump to the top of the deck. The cards are then cut once placing the selected card in the middle of the pack – but say the magic words and the selected card is on top again! This is just one of over 125 additional tricks that are possible with the Svengali deck.

Svengali Deck $1.25 Effect:A card is selected and returned to the pack which is then shuffled. The magician then feels the backs of the cards one at a time and is able to find the selected card by sensing which card is warmer from the spectators touch! The selected card is then shuffled into the pack again only to jump to the top of the deck. The cards are then cut once placing the selected card in the middle of the pack – but say the magic words and the selected card is on top again! This is just one of over 125 additional tricks that are possible with the Svengali deck.

Professional Svengali Deck – Bicycle Brand Red $5.5 Effect:A card is selected and returned to the pack which is then shuffled. The magician then feels the backs of the cards one at a time and is able to find the selected card by sensing which card is warmer from the spectators touch! The selected card is then shuffled into the pack again only to jump to the top of the deck. The cards are then cut once placing the selected card in the middle of the pack – but say the magic words and the selected card is on top again! This is just one of over 125 additional tricks that are possible with the Svengali deck.