The land had also been intended for development, but was turned over to the City by BART and is now Ohlone Park.

Bus service across the bridge is provided by the Dumbarton Express, run by a consortium of local transit agencies ( SamTrans, AC Transit, VTA and others ) which connects to BART at Union City and Caltrain at Palo Alto and California Avenue.

In the mid 2000s Swedish company Distec invented a library book vending machine known as the GoLibrary, that offers library books to people where there is no branch, limited hours, or high traffic locations such as El Cerrito del Norte BART station in California.

The bay is also spanned by the Transbay Tube, an underwater tube through which BART runs.

* The music video for rap group Gangstarr's 1997 single " You Know my Steez ", directed by Terry Heller, is a faithful homage to THX 1138, from the costuming and iconic cinematography to an upside-down miniature BART tunnel and the duplication of the famous extreme telephoto sunset ending.

The BART railcar in the following chart is not generally considered to be a " light rail " vehicle ( it is actually a heavy rail vehicle ), and is only included for comparison purposes.

Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

With an average weekday ridership of 379, 300 passengers, and 309, 420 weekend day passengers, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system in the United States.

The name BART is pronounced as a word, not as individual letters.

In some ways, BART is the successor to the Key System, which ran streetcars throughout the East Bay and across the lower deck of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge until 1958.

The system is being expanded to San Jose with the Silicon Valley BART extension.

This is also used by the Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) system of the San Francisco Bay Area.

In addition to being served by those two freeways, Castro Valley is served with public transportation by bus system AC Transit, and rapid transit system BART with a station.

The Pittsburg-Bay Point terminal of the Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) rail system is located here.

There is limited bus service to Byron by Tri-Delta Transit's route 386, that connects the community and Discovery Bay with the Brentwood Park and Ride Lot where passengers may transfer to buses connecting to other cities in the region in addition to Pittsburg / Bay Point ( BART station ) and Brentwood Dimes-A-Ride transit.

El Cerrito is approximately from the University of California Berkeley campus and it has two BART ( Bay Area rapid transit ) stations: El Cerrito del Norte and El Cerrito Plaza.

In addition to this local service, El Cerrito is also served by AC Transit's trans-bay buses to the San Francisco Transbay Terminal, as well as its late night service from the del Norte station through Richmond, San Pablo, and Pinole, and one of the All Nighter routes, which follows the Richmond-Millbrae BART line.

The City is home to a segment of the Ohlone Greenway ( named after the Native American Ohlone people ), a trail that runs the length of the City along the BART right-of-way and is popular with walkers, runners, and bicyclists.

* BART is an acronym for:

The site is adjacent to not only the airport but the planned BART extension to Santa Clara and the existing Santa Clara Caltrain station, and near both Interstate 880 and U. S. Route 101.

* San Francisco Bay Area — BART is similar to an S-Bahn in that both are hybrids between a rapid transit system and a commuter rail system.

The city's primary transportation infrastructure consists of the El Cerrito Plaza and El Cerrito del Norte BART stations along with several local bus lines, operated by AC Transit, providing access to the surrounding area and the nearby cities of Albany, Berkeley and Richmond.

The Tri-Valley is serviced by WHEELS, operated by LAVTA, formerly called Tri-Valley Transit, a bus agency that operates local bus service in addition to feeder service to Hacienda Business Park, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Las Positas College, Stoneridge Mall, and Dublin / Pleasanton BART station.

It will be operated by BART, integrated into the BART fare system with standard BART ticket gates located at the entrance to the station at the airport end of the people mover.

In addition, peak hour service is operated on the line to Pleasant Hill and Concord, supplementing the normal BART headway of 15 minutes on weekdays and 20 minutes on nights and weekends.

The Concord station operated as a terminal station from the time when BART opened until 1995 when the line was extended to North Concord / Martinez.

Most locations for filming were in the San Francisco area, including the then unfinished tunnels of the Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) subway system, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, the San Francisco International Airport and at a remote manipulator for a hot cell.

At around the same time, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) system installed a zoetrope-type advertisement between the Embarcadero and Montgomery stations which could be viewed by commuters traveling in either direction.

In the early morning hours of January 1, 2009, unarmed civilian Oscar Grant was shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on a crowded platform at the Fruitvale BART Station in East Oakland.

Naglee Park and Ride Lot by the West Valley Mall serves as a major commuter hub to BART and jobs in the South Bay.

The armed forces also fielded small breathing apparatus rescue teams ( BART ) and rescue equipment support teams ( REST ) headed by professional firefighters of the RAF and staffed by specially trained members of all three services.

It has also had involvement in a number of other high profile construction engineering projects: numerous power projects such as refineries and nuclear power plants ; transportation projects including the Channel Tunnel, the BART system, King Fahd International Airport in Dammam ( the largest Airport in the world by land area ), Hong Kong International Airport and the Big Dig ; and other projects such as the Kingdom Centre and Tower in Saudi Arabia, Jubail Industrial City, the rebuilding of the civil infrastructure of Iraq funded by the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ), and the hauling and installing of more than 35, 000 trailers and mobile homes for Hurricane Katrina victims in Mississippi.

DeLibero retired in the spring of 2004 and was replaced by Frank Wilson, a 30-year transit executive who had been president of AECOM Enterprises, a Los Angeles-based engineering consulting firm ; Wilson had also previously been general manager of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District ( BART ) in Northern California and was the Commissioner of Transportation for the State of New Jersey.

In the immediate aftermath of the May 1969 People's Park demonstrations, and consistent with their goal of " letting a thousand parks bloom ," People's Park activists began gardening a two-block section of the Hearst Corridor, between McGee Avenue and Sacramento Avenue The Hearst Corridor was a strip of land along the north side of Hearst Avenue that had been left largely untended after the houses had been torn down to facilitate completion of an underground subway line by the Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) District.

The station is being planned and paid for by BART and the city of Union City.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) system in the San Francisco Bay Area chose gauge.

San Joaquin Regional Transit District ( SMART ) runs two local routes that connect the city with other San Joaquin County communities and six commuter services that run to Dublin / Pleasanton BART station and job centers in the South Bay and Livermore.

Amtrak Buses connect serve the city's Amtrak Bus Station with six daily trips to the South Bay and two to San Francisco, all of which stop at BART and job centers in Livermore.

South Tracy offers the Altamont Commuter Express ( ACE ) service at Tracy ( ACE station ), which provides commuter rail transportation to the Bay Area and connects with VTA in San Jose, BART via shuttle in Dublin and Fremont, in addition to Amtrak train in Santa Clara and San Jose.

The Daly City BART station opened on September 11, 1972, providing northern San Mateo County with rail service to downtown San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area.

In 1959, a Bechtel partnership called Parsons Brinckerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel gained the contract for San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) system.

BART has tunnels under the San Francisco and Oakland city centres and surface trackage in more outlying locations.

In June 2003 a passenger connection for the Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) and Caltrain systems opened at Millbrae station just south of the San Francisco International Airport.

Although only about three miles ( 5 km ) in length, the replacement freeway cost over $ 1. 2 billion, for several reasons: it crossed over and under the elevated BART line to San Francisco ; it squeezed between a post office, the West Oakland BART station, the Port of Oakland, a rail yard, and a sewage treatment plant ; it occupied an entirely new right-of-way, which required the acquisition of large amounts of valuable industrial real estate near the Port of Oakland ; and of course, it had to be earthquake-proof.