![]() (Yes, BART was originally envisioned as a system that would also run west through northern and parts of western San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge and beyond, but that plan died in 1962 when Marin County officials opted out of the system.) They planned BART as a system with a single main line on its route down to the Peninsula. And in this case, BART’s route is the product of what public officials, business interests and planners in the 1950s thought a rapid transit system should be. Of course, what one person sees as a mistake can be another’s very deliberate strategy. ![]() NPR One or your favorite podcast platform. Ziad submitted his question to Bay Curious and it won a voting round, so a lot of people have been wondering why BART was designed this way.īay Curious is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area. “Why do four of the five BART lines (red, yellow, green, blue) go all the way from West Oakland to Daly City? It seems like a mistake.” “Metros and subways in European cities tend to be spread out, hitting every city corner,” Ziad said. Look at any BART map and you’ll see lines converging from Contra Costa and Alameda counties on a single corridor through the Transbay Tube across San Francisco and down the Peninsula to San Francisco International Airport and Millbrae. ![]() So, when he moved to the Bay Area and started riding BART, he was a little confused. In Washington, D.C., he was impressed with the metro system, which took him most places he wanted to go. UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Ziad Shafi has lived in several parts of the U.S. ![]()
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