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Re: BART getting ready to decommission legacy cars |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Wed Jan 16 11:07:05 2019, in response to Re: BART getting ready to decommission legacy cars, posted by Broadway Lion on Tue Jan 15 15:48:05 2019. Yeah, BART'sofficial line mentioned high winds inthe Bay Area. At the time the us rapid transit speed recordwas held by CTA for hot rodded PCC L cars (the Windy City, you know)On a more ugly level, Southern Pacific was paranoid that BART would want to run on their tracks. S.D.Bechtel Sr was Chair of SP's BOD and Jr a member. Bechtel Corp was part of the engineering/managing consortium which made the decision--BART's BOD were pretty much rubber stamp. While there is no smoking gun, the Bechtel connection seems meaningful to me. |
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