Everybody remember this old BART map?
This was before we had the North Concord and Pittsurg/Bay Point stations.
QUESTION: When was the last time you rode a BART train?
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Note the list of fares shown. How about that?
When BART began revenue service you could purchase an “excursion fare” ticket that allowed you to ride anywhere in the system for thirty five cents. The caveate was that you had to exit at the same station you entered.
Yeah, that was great. My best fried and I packed a lunch and rode it all day, everywhere it went. We were in Jr, High School, so it was a “Wow” experience for us……….. // Sad what BART has become.
I think BART had been operating around 3 years when I decided I’d ride it one day. I boarded in Concord and ventured to another nearby station then turned around and came back. When I exited the same station I’d entered I recall being surprised to see it cost me $2.00. I don’t remember why I thought it should have been free or at least cost a lot less to exit the same station I’d entered in under 30 minutes time.
yeah…. I think the 35 cent thing was only the first year………….
The promise of BART, inexpensive mass transit that would alleviate traffic jams…fail!!!
This old map is also from before the new recent San Jose extensions – which should have been done to the Antioch/Brentwood area first since those residents started paying taxes for the extension 40+ years ago! Wrong and unfair – just pure politics and money…
And Livermore…whose residents have also been paying the entire time.
4 years ago. Went to see Monster Trucks at the Coliseum. Never again. Took my kids and it was nothing but fowl mouthed pot smoking jerks who had absolutely no manners. I’m trying to teach my kids compassion and courtesy, and it’s very difficult to do that with the trash that rides BART.
Two days after the Oakland Hills Fire in the Fall of 1991, I took BART to the Rockridge Station and stood out on the platform for a long time looking at the damage….The last time I used BART was in 2011 where I had to go to the frisco Civic Station, walk through the streets of filth, and go to the Federal Building, to talk My way out of Federal Jury Duty.
The last time I rode BART was in 2015 (?). My husband and I went to watch the Blue Angels show at the end of Navy Fleet Week. We took the luncheon cruise on Hornblower’s “Delta Queen”, and were up on the upper deck of the paddle boat (long motorized, though) near Alcatraz Island. The jets’ near passes and upward “afterburner” climbs were right above us!
The ride home on BART was miserably jammed, though, until after we passed the Oakland station because there had been many, MANY different types of events in The City that day.
The sad thing is this map looks mostly the same after decades and Billions of dollars spent on extensions
Last rode it a couple weeks ago to have lunch in SF with a former co-worker. Nothing has changed since I last rode it in early May. At least I don’t have to ride it 2 or more times a week.
The section between MacArthur and Oakland West is often referred to as “The Gauntlet”.
Before Pleasant Hill became “Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre”.
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