You're Really, Really Curious About BART

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We get a lot of BART questions from our listeners, so this week we're answering a slew of them with long-time transit reporter Dan Brekke. How did they build the underwater tunnels for BART? In its nearly 50 years of existence, why has BART taken so long to extend into Santa Clara County? And only normally protruded into San Mateo County and never expanded into any of the North Bay counties? Why are there news kiosks in the BART station that are closed? Why doesn't BART let people run these news kiosks? What is the history? At the West Oakland BART Station there are ads right next to the third rail. How on earth do they change those out without getting electrocuted? Why does it seem like the escalators are constantly broken? Why does BART announce elevator status all the time? Our question askers this week were Briana, Brad Meyer, Jay Quigley, Mark, Dan and Eric. Additional Goodies Why are BART trains so loud? (Apple Podcasts) Sign up for the Bay Curious newsletter The Bay: An Unspoken Guide to Riding BART (Apple Podcasts) Why are BART Escalators Nearly Always Broken? And How Did They Build Those Tunnels? Credits Produced by Jessica Placzek and Olivia Allen-Price. Featuring KQED's transit editor Dan Brekke. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Jessica Placzek, Katie McMurran and Rob Speight. Additional support from Julie Caine, Paul Lancour, Patricia Yollin, Carly Severn, Christopher Cox, Bianca Hernandez, Kyana Moghadam, Suzie Racho, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Holly Kernan.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	There are certain topics that we tend to get a lot of questions from you guys about, and one that
0:10.0	you mention a lot is Bay Area Rapid Transit, you know, Bart. One of our first
0:17.1	stories ever was actually about why Bart is so loud and ever since fail, every month or so, a new question comes in about Bart.
0:26.7	How did they build the underwater tunnels?
0:30.7	Why does Bart seem to have such a hard time keeping their escalators working?
0:34.0	There are empty newsstands.
0:35.6	What is the history?
0:36.7	Why did Bart take so long expanding into Santa Clara and why didn't it go to the North Bay?
0:42.6	There are ads right next to the third rail.
0:45.0	How on earth did they change those out
0:46.6	without getting electrocuted?
0:48.9	This week I lured Transit reporter Dan Brecky
0:51.2	into a recording booth to see what he could tell us.
0:54.0	I'm your host Olivia Allen Price.
0:56.0	Y'all, it's time for Bay Curious.
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1:16.3	Visit Sierra Nevada.com to find your new favorite beer today. All right, well, so Dan Brecky, I brought you in here because we want to do effectively
1:29.3	like a BART special.
1:30.9	We get a ton of questions about BART and you are as far as I am concerned
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