The presentation linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28355136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28355136 says the BART car width is 3.2m, which se

The presentation linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28355136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28355136 says the BART car width is 3.2m, which seems to be the typical North American passenger car width [1]. The BART cars certainly look wide, but that's because they're not very tall. This is wider than most metro trains (especially 19th century systems), but BART isn't a metro system anyway. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_gauge#Standard_loading_gauges_for_standard_track_gauge_lines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_gauge#Standard_loading...