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out my bart journeys to a degree that i ve never experienced before while riding rapid transit still it was enough to demonstrate the degree to which bart stands apart from the other systems you ll find across north america created to replace the privately run key system an interurban streetcar system that served the cities of the east bay into the 1940s and rattled across the bay bridge into the 1950s today s bart almost seems like a product of a 1970s view of the future system a ten car train departs rockridge station running in the center median of california state route 24 while bart calls itself a rapid transit network it s really a combination of urban rapid transit and suburban commuter rail this sort of setup is fairly common in central europe known in german as an s bahn but relatively rare outside that area it can be argued to not even be anchored on san francisco itself its headquarters are in oakland and one of its lines serves the east bay exclusively it also provides the only rapid transit access to and from san francisco international airport through a station connected directly to the international terminal five lines presently make up the bart system rather than named after a specific color or route they re identified by their respective termini in a manner slightly reminiscent of go transit s convention the pittsburg bay point sfo millbrae line for example runs between pittsburg bay point in the north west and san francisco international airport and millbrae in the south and while it s colored yellow on maps you won t hear an official source refer to it as the yellow line with the notable exception of marin county on the north side of the golden gate bridge which was included in initial network plans only to arouse popular opposition and fear that service would spur sprawl development bart service extends across most of the bay area and plans are in place for the lines that currently terminate at fremont to be extended south to san jose and silicon valley but this isn t planned to happen until 2025 so don t hold your breath most of the bart system seems to consist of at grade trackage either in its own right of way or in highway medians though i did observe some elevated portions around colma and in western oakland the main exception is in san francisco itself where it runs almost entirely underground there are additional underground segment such as the berkeley hills tunnel on the pittsburg bay point sfo millbrae line which i did not travel through as it is known to penetrate the hayward fault and i was unwilling to tempt fate considering there s apparently slight but nonzero chance that a train inside the tunnel during a sufficiently powerful earthquake could be torn apart besides i was busy in san francisco anyway the network s key underground segment though isn t under that much ground at all the transbay tube which is nearly six kilometers long and takes trains four and a half minutes to travel through 1 is an immersed tube on the floor of san francisco bay that connects downtown san francisco to oakland as it carries four out of five bart lines the transbay tube is the system s biggest bottleneck my departure from san francisco coincided with weekend track maintenance in the tube which shut down one set of tracks entirely and resulted in significant delays and complicated train redirections it s sufficiently different from the remainder of bart s subway network that there s a section devoted just to it on the emergency evacuation instruction posters inside the trains bart is also unique in that it s almost exclusively a rail operator the only exception is airbart a shuttlebus service that connects to oakland international airport aside from that depending on where your destination is you may end up transferring from bart onto san francico s muni ac transit in the east bay golden gate transit for journeys into marin and so on transfers to the muni metro are easy within downtown san francisco as the two agencies share the four northernmost stations of the market street subway two partially used bart tickets there s 0 70 us i ll never see again where bart gets difficult and presents ample opportunities to trip up the unwary is in its fares unlike every other transit system i ve ever used there are no time based passes available you can t get an unlimited use weekly monthly or even day pass the closest it comes for the general public is the bart blue high value ticket which gives a 6 25 discount on the ticket price as they re only available in 45 and 60 denominations though they re clearly geared toward the regular commuter riders bart fare media is available in two forms the new clipper smartcard similar to the los angeles tap card or the presto card in the greater toronto area which is accepted by multiple bay area transit agencies and physical tickets and for visitors to the bay area the latter is what you re going to be dealing with though some stations have collectors on staff generally you re going to be getting your ticket from a ticket vending machine they re fairly straightforward once you get the hang of them you just specify the value of ticket you want insert your payment and it will print you a fresh ticket with a magnetic strip and the stored value printed on as you travel through the system you feed your ticket into the faregate readers at the departure and arrival stations and its stored value is adjusted accordingly once it hits zero the faregate will open but the machine won t return your ticket and you ll just have to get another one the tvms all have fare calculation tables attached so you can tell exactly how much it ll cost go anywhere from where you are planning out routes in advance with the fare calculator means you don t have any partially loaded tickets left over but it likewise restricts your freedom to tool around the system all bart ticket vending machines accept cash and specialized machines take debit or credit and debit cards as well there ll usually be at least a couple at every station but unless a sign has been affixed which isn t guaranteed there s no way to tell which is which from a distance like if you re lined up waiting to use it what the machines don t tell you is that there are hard coded restrictions for using credit cards any given credit card can only be used to purchase bart tickets twice in a twenty four hour period if you attempt to run it a third time the machine will flash the message bart limits exceeded spit out a receipt for the cancelled transaction and return to the main menu with no further explanation this happened to me at colma station which fortunately was one of the stations that had a collector on duty who was able to explain just what the hell the deal was according to her the restriction was put in place because bart has in the past experienced issues with people using stolen credit cards to buy tickets so i can understand the policy i just wish there had been some warning about it 2 this is another good reason to either plan out your journey ahead of time or pay cash stations the main surface structure at downtown berkeley station in berkeley california bart service began in 1972 and so its station conveniently sidestepped the whole twentieth century prison bathroom aesthetic you ll find so easily from toronto to san francisco and new york to chicago architectural styles vary from the concrete brutalism of glen park to the windows and waterfalls of san francisco international airport to 24th st mission which reminded me of vermont beverly on the red line subway in los angeles there aren t many of them either which is indicative of its nature as a regional rapid transit system as of this writing there are only forty four stations for one hundred and sixty seven kilometers of track depending on where you are bart stations vary substantially in terms of their function while the san francisco stations are indistinguishable from urban subways the suburban stations strongly cater to the commuter population one such example is colma station where the actual station is dwarfed by the attached parking garage in the four shared market street subway stations the bart platforms are installed below the muni metro platforms giving bart commuters temporary glimpses of the san francisco trains rumbling in and out while public art isn t ubiquitous in the system it does have a presence such as a mural at macarthur of what resembled a bubbly peacock 3 aside from the shared market street subway stations bart stations don t tend to follow the same design aside from a preference toward center platforms they may look like they re poorly lit when you re looking out of a train s windows but this isn t actually the case the windows just tend to be foggy on the whole from the crennelated concrete walls at balboa park to high ceilinged almost hangar like ambience at ashby the varying station designs lend some welcome aesthetics to the system they re not necessarily designed well though at balboa park where the muni metro s j church and k ingleside lines loop for journeys back to downtown san francisco it seems as if bart specifically designed the station to ignore the muni presence unlike in the shared market street subway stations there s no signage indicating where to transfer to muni trains even though the loop is immediately adjacent to the station building as bart tends to run exceedingly long trains with ten car consists fairly common even in off peak hours the stations are accordingly large this can become a problem for people who aren t familiar with the bart system as while there are platform level system maps schedules and information there are only a few on any given platform thus you might find it only to realize the train that just left was the one you should have boarded and it ll be fifteen minutes until the next one shows up plus that assumes the map will be accurate when you find it i found one at embarcadero station that rather having been replaced with an updated version just had stickers affixed noting that the 820 night bus line had been eliminated as of december 28 2008 there are also a surprising number of payphones on the platforms i suppose they represent a vulnerable underbelly in the event that bart again suspends cell phone service within its stations equipment an aerodynamic a2 car brings up the rear of a train at colma station if i had to describe bart cars in one word angle y if they weren t so spacious they d put me in the mind of london underground 1973 stock trains as it is they seem like they re wider than they are high due to their angled walls i suppose it may be to make the trains feel more open and less like a traditional subway which would be particularly important when you ve got two thousand people crammed into a crush loaded ten car train there s plenty of room for standing passengers and most of the seats are arranged in pairs of two with armrests no benches like on the mark i skytrains but no single seats either the windows enhance the feeling of openness in the trains since there s no roof line advertising strip the windows are able to fill all the wall space from the centerline to the roof advertisements in general aren t too common on bart trains limited to the front and back ends of the individual cars the remainder of the wall space is taken up by windows route maps and emergency evacuation instruction posters the most striking aspect of bart s rolling stock is by no means universal but in the world of rapid transit it stands apart some of its cars have carpeted floors while i understand this was fairly common back in the day most rapid transit operators have switched to using floor surfaces that are easier to clean it s not every day you ll encounter a bart car with carpeted floors my only encounter came at the very beginning on the train i boarded to head into san francisco from the airport still it set a tone that was a bit higher class like this isn t just some subway it certainly stands apart from muni graffiti is specifically prohibited on bart and while there was some in evidence here and there was far less than on muni where every last lrv seemed to have its windows vandalized the seats were comfortable as well but whenever i sat down i couldn t help but thinking about the studies that had been conducted a couple of months previously that had discovered a vast array of antiseptic resistant bacteria and molds clinging to the fabric not that it kept me from sitting down though subway surfing is a difficult art to master particularly when you re unfamiliar with the idiosyncracies of a new system with unfamiliar rolling stock considering that bart trains aren t automated even though they could be apparently rides won t necessarily always be smooth ease of access and ease of use these fare gates control access to the bart platforms at montgomery station so there i was in 24th st mission station waiting for a train that would take me to ashby station in berkeley so i could check out a bookstore i heard about in the area a dublin pleasanton train arrives and i let it go because that definitely doesn t go where i need to a pittsburg bay point train shows up and i get on because that takes me where i need to go right it s not until the train departs macarthur and i m seeing surroundings i didn t see on my original trip into berkeley that i realize i m on the wrong train that s no good for me it underscored the importance of knowing exactly where the various lines split off from each other either of the lines going to richmond would have worked for me considering that i was carefully planning out my route so as to not leave any money left over though i don t know what would have happened if a bart police officer had inspected my fare while i was waiting for a train to get me out of rockridge even when you re aware though it can be difficult to make sure you re on the right train the best way is to look at the screens on the station platforms and listen to the highly mechanical synthesized voices that announce the destination of the next incoming train some drivers will announce what line you re riding during station stops but then again some won t rollsigns are right out bart trains have only a single rollsign a small digital screen on the front car and even if the train is going slow enough to read it s hard enough to read that there s really no point at all in it being there why they don t have window rollsigns on each individual car as on the chicago l or the los angeles metro rail i have no idea there are no automatic station announcements on bart trains that job is left up to the operator who might call out the next station but then again they might not whether it s because the speakers in your individual car are busted or because they just don t feel like it is up for debate still it feels unnecessarily unfriendly and just because they were able to get away with it in the 1980s doesn t mean that it ...