50 Years of BART | The Transbay Tube 

Thanks Bill! 💪🏼

Yes, thank you for your contribution. Looks like one of the greatest architectural engineering achievements of all time. Awesome stuff. You should be very proud

The future thanks you!

@@Porsche996driverbill is kinda gay lol

@@yaboidre5672gay

You hit the nail on the head. The automobile is the middle-class trap that Americans willingly walk right into.

That's why you had to be rich as a king to have a horse in Europe -- to be a gentleman. In America, every man could have a horse or two. It's no different with cars. The elite jealously guard their advantages, and constantly seek ways to deprive the common man of his automobile.

And this idiotic quote is an elitist anti car myth.

:D

Ha, yes! The cart.

You’re too young. Before that we had a film projector.

@@xiaoka no Unfortunately I’m not too young. We had those too as well as overhead projectors. = )

TV set? All I recall were a projector and screen:)

@@d.bcooper7819 we had both and a overhead projector

The population of both the US and of the world has more than doubled since the transbay tube was built. NAFTA sent US manufacturing jobs overseas. Unions were busted. Profit margins for big businesses quadrupled. How to fix it? Bring back the jobs, respect workers, & make the rich & big business pay their taxes.

I agree

I feel that way about all subway systems.

You can blame the howling on BART cost cutting measures. The trains originally had steel wheels with a rubber composite ring or "tire" on them... very quiet running. I remember when you could carry on a normal conversation going through the tube. Those quieter composite tires weren't lasting as long as conventional railroad steel "tires", so BART phased them out by replacing the rubber composite ones with conventional steel. The noise levels of the trains shot up dramatically, I remember being able to carry on a normal conversion going through the transbay tube without needing to yell. The way the system has turned to crap going through the Oakland and Embarcadero stations... you can't pay me enough to set foot on BART these days.

I suspect my old BART commute gave me tinnitus, or at least in part contributed to it. Those old trains get loud when they got up to speed, can't say anything about the new ones since I haven't been on one.

The howling represents the death of American engineering. Everything in BART was custom-design, following aerospace principles. They INTENTIONALLY used minimally-tapered wheels, under the premise that track deflections would be tightly controlled. The "Wheel Geometry Change" is a mediocre workaround, because resetting/replacing all the tracks would be too hard or expensive.

@@mithikx the new trains are loud but they're not as loud as the old trains

no war ? i guess nam didnt happen

@@andred3299 technically the US never stopped waging war since ww2. The military industrial complex took over as a consequence of WW2 (President Eisenhower warned us of this in his farewell speech) , didn’t even finish rebuilding before start of the Cold War and Korean War, into Vietnam and haven’t looked back militarily since !

Do you have my sympathies 😋

Thanks for sharing!!!

That must have been exciting! I always got a kick out of traveling from SF to Oakland and emerging topside.

No wings no rudders and no nose cone ! Incredible story

Not something I would brag about or be proud of,BART is an abomination. A disgusting, filthy, gangbanger and bum riddled, abomination. Noisy pieces of junk too, I despise even looking at it.

The communist red China would supply tainted steel

I believe that these days, we have the ability to move material from one place, using such modes of transportation as ships, trucks, and the railway.

@@leisti haha fair enough. But 1) being able to build these in the bay, then drop them off directly in the bay, probably cuts transportation costs significantly, 2) also good luck transporting a 300 foot long, 800 ton tube by truck or rail.

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30 minutes from MacArthur station as long as all the door sensors close.

Sad.

thanks outsourcing and unregulated immigration

@@clydeholbrook lol, what do refugees coming to the US have ANYTHING to do with what country we get our steel from? Educate yourself sometime

Currently bart is a shithole

Santa Rosa, and a route around the Southern end of the Bay are the missing portions , IMO.

my grandfather invented the toilet

​@@stereolababyHis Grandfather invented the Outhouse. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And they lean too!

Wow did that actually happen?

@@Tipman2OOO I think some stations were flooded because of the largest single day of rain on record yesterday.

And it took 48 years to get a new BART station into Milpitas and San Jose :(

The old Eureka street station was the closest one to my house when I grew up. Now you can ride the same type of torpedo car down Market on the F line. They are vintage cars from other cities because SF let theirs get vandalized in storage. BART was going to go through the Twin Peaks tunnel before they scaled it back. The Muni Metro took over the connecting tunnel and the Castro, Church and Van Ness stations.

We workers used to eat lunch and look up at the city workers passing by, all clean and tidy 😁

What’s that “S” and “D” stand for?

@@SharpBalisong system and district. Both were abandoned by 1964, when initial test track construction began.

@@wblynch Thanks for the history lesson! That little bit of trivia will come in handy one day.

Second transbay tube is being looked at. I wish they built this 20 years ago as it's badly needed.

Going with a girlfriend would have been better.

@@tomscot7567 🤫

NIMBYs are gonna cry about it and won't let it happen

@@tomscot7567 I don't live my life to please bigoted professing straight people.

I remember the ride in the tunnel was not as smooth as before the earthquake but it was running.

They shut it down for 24 hours anyway just to make sure that they inspected everything.

Apparently passengers didn't even know anything happened. At least that's what I heard.

F. A. R. T. ?

HA.

yep

It's important to find new ways to justify wasting tax dollars.

(inflation)

@@enzomthethwa5861 Data? How does the increase compare to inflation since earlier construction? Has technology not improved to offset inflation? Is the new construction similarly difficult? Your one word reveals nothing without good data.

✨Inflation✨

And a hobo tube!

sad but thats a democrat run city for you.

I was shocked to learn through this video that the tracks go up and down. You definitely don't feel any elevation change when going through the tube.

You bet , nothing but the best. Don't forget Bethlehem Steel in the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge 👍

@Dave Geisler Indeed it's their legacy even though it's been almost 20 years since the company went bankrupt.

cost

Get a hi-vis vest and take a video of it

@@johnarbuckle6775 it’s right by the ramps from the Marin ferry. Anyone can see it if you look around.

@@Balthorium Thanks, I’ll just drop by-from Salem, Ore.

The elevator is real old but It's better the using the stairs to get of the SFTS. It's been great working in the Transbay Tube.

We don't build things now because the rich don't want to pay taxes. Elon Musk laughs all the way to the bank as he takes a private jet from one part of the city to another.

America

I agree

I agree

@suspicionofdeceit No, it only passenger service.

Ferrys Still run, leaving from Vallejo and Richmond to the City.

@@jeanesingsjazz and from oakland, alameda, SSF, Marin and Berkeley too.

too slow and infrequent. compared to nyc’s system if you’ve ever been there

Yeah, the days before Reaganomics

I noticed how nicely dressed and civilized the people were then,

my guess is that the galvanic protection system has sacrificial anodes which can be replaced at regular service intervals. They rust, the tube doesn’t.

I was wondering this as well. All bare metal in that salt water

That's what happens in a tunnel lol

Move back dude we are full

good point

Prayer?

Back when the homeless didn’t live on the trains, Or camp out in the stations.

​@@jeanesingsjazz Back when the Streets of San Francisco weren't an Open Toilet. 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

Yes, and I remember after the LP earthquake, it was ferries to the rescue. As the Bay Bridge was damaged.

My understanding is the ferries are unprofitable, subsidized and kept in operation because they are resilient to disaster and can be used as a backup system.