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> Back in the 60s / 70s when BART started operating, it was one of the first metro subways. What does that mean? It wasn't the first in anything by any stretch
by sofixa 4y ago
> Back in the 60s / 70s when BART started operating, it was one of the first metro subways.
What does that mean? It wasn't the first in anything by any stretch of the imagination.
- telchior 4y agoI know, the way I said it was poorly worded. It was a first in the minds of the planners and builders for, among other reasons, the approval process, the engineering conditions they built it under (a compressed air tunnel was required to keep out the mud and water from the Bay, I'm not sure if that was a first for just the US or the entire world), the amount of funding required (largest US public project to date), the specifications of the system, and the supposed comforts of the trains themselves. In short, it was supposed to be a revolutionary metro, not just "yet another metro system". As it turned out, they would have been much better served by copying what was tried and true.
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