The idea was born in 1951. But it took another 20 years of hard work to make that dream come true. Here's a look back at the beginning of how BART came to be.
The idea for BART was born in 1951. But it took another 20 years of hard work to make that dream come true. Here's a look back at the beginning of Bay Area Rapid Transit.was an ambitious goal to create a next-generation network 68 years after New York's subway system launched. While Sept. 11, 1972 was a true milestone, the achievement was hardly easy. Groundbreaking was eight years earlier in 1964.
Voters in San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties in 1962 approved a $792 million bond measure to create BART, even though Marin and San Mateo counties had pulled out over cost. Santa Clara County, pre tech boom, didn't see the need. In the case of Marin, there was no interest in building a second deck on the Golden Gate Bridge for the BART trains. Technically, the vote for the BART bond failed to win by the required margin in Contra Costa.
"The state legislature passed a bill that allowed them to average out the votes between the three counties," said Healy. "Had they not done that, then it would have been the two counties to carry it, and it wouldn't have happened." Inaugural service was East Bay only, running between MacArthur Station in Oakland and Fremont because the tube underneath San Francisco Bay to San Francisco was still under construction.
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