BART
Also: bay area rapid transit, transbay tube, oakland
Bay Area Rapid Transit: fast electric trains under the bay and out to the suburbs.
Example
BART’s lines
- Red
- Richmond to Millbrae
- Orange
- Richmond to Berryessa
- Yellow
- Antioch to the airport
- Green
- Berryessa to Daly City
- Blue
- Dublin/Pleasanton to Daly City
Where each line usually runs. Late in the evening only some of them do.
BART opened in 1972. Its trains run under San Francisco, through a tube on the floor of the bay, and out through Oakland and Berkeley to the suburbs beyond. Its lines are named by colour.
It’s a railway of its own making. The rails are 5 feet 6 inches apart, wider than nearly every other railway in America, and the trains take their power from a third rail beside the track.
BART doesn’t give its trains a number you’d ever see: a train is known by its line and where it’s going. So a BART journey in Trainiac has no train number, and that’s not something missing.
BART meets Caltrain at Millbrae, where you can change from one to the other.
In Trainiac
A BART journey shows the logo alone, with no number beside it.