My First Time Riding BART in San Francisco

Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART for short, is perhaps one of the most well-known transit systems in the United States. It stretches an impressive 131 miles (211km) on both sides of San Francisco Bay. It may come as a surprise to you that I have never visited the Bay Area yet, nor had I been on BART. Well, when we arrived into Richmond on Amtrak's California Zephyr, I set out to rectify that. We rode a Red Line train from Richmond to Powell Street, and got lucky enough to catch a ride on the 50-year-old Legacy Fleet just a few months before they were all pulled out of service for good.

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Date of filming: May 10, 2023

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:27 Transferring from Amtrak to BART at Richmond
2:20 History of BART
5:27 Uninterrupted train noises
8:03 Running through Oakland
8:45 The Transbay Tube
10:05 Goodbye to the Legacy Fleet
10:42 Fleet of the Future
12:31 Powell Street Station