Well, do they ? When i was watching the 1972 movie Dirty Harry there is a point where he gets on to some kind of a subway. Well, do they punk ?
Well, do they ? When i was watching the 1972 movie Dirty Harry there is a point where he gets on to some kind of a subway. Well, do they punk ?
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
I didn't realize that BART was that old , but the Bay Area Rapid Transit opened in '72 , and does indeed have some underground sections .Originally Posted by n2ize
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Russ, W5RB
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Dirty Harry took place in San Francisco, which is considered to be Northern California*. San Francisco does indeed have subways, both for BART and the Municipal Railway (known as the MUNI). Los Angeles and even San Diego have subways of a sort, but nothing as extensive as in S.F.
*Geographically speaking, San Francisco is really in central California but any native Golden State resident would consider Central California to be the area around Santa Maria. Go figure.
Officially, Southern California consists of the state's southernmost ten counties. If you look at a map, you'll see the northern boundaries of those counties from a straight east-west line that's considered the demarcation between Northern and Southern CA.
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All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
It's not geography, Carl, it's an attitude. Everything below the Santa Barbara county line is The Great Satan, as one of my ex-co-workers used to call LA. Unfortunately, The Valley and Orange County are home to some of the goofiest right wingers on the planet. Remember John Schmitz? Right wing Congressman who even got kicked out of the John Birch Society for being too extreme. Oh, and his daughter is Mary LeTourneau...
BTW, anything south of Santa Barbara that isn't San Diego, is "LA" or "The Mojave" for us northern dwellers.
I'm sure some of our Midwest friends would LOVE to be in Needles, Blythe or Indio right about now.
Okay, sounds interesting. So, I'd imagine that they don't have an extensive underground system as we have here in NY. Of course our system also has underground and, in the outer boroughs above ground sections , Which we call "the El".
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
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Mileage
104 total: The A-line from Fremont to Lake Merritt, 23.8 miles; the M, W and Y-line from Oakland West to Millbrae, 27 miles; the R-line from Richmond to MacArthur, 10.6 miles; the C-line from Pittsburg/Bay Point to Rockridge, 29.3 miles; and the L-line Dublin/Pleasanton to Bay Fair, 10 miles. There are approximately 37 miles of track through subways and tunnels, 23 miles of aerial track and 44 of surface track (four additional miles of double track in subways and four underground stations for the S.F. Municipal Railway were constructed by BART as specified by the original 1962 plan).
Stations
43 stations comprise 15 surface, 13 elevated and 15 subway stations. Four of these are a combination of BART and MUNI Metro stations in downtown San Francisco and one station is a combination of BART and Caltrain in Millbrae. For an overview of each station, visit the Stations section.
I won't question your Creator's wisdom , but you are responsible for your own actions .
Russ, W5RB
No, San Francisco covers a much smaller land area than NYC; it's subways are all east of the neighborhood known as "West Portal," at the western exit of the Twin Peaks Tunnel. The rest of the city has extensive electric rail and trolley (electric) bus coverage. There are diesel busses too but they don't work as well on the hills as the trolley busses do.
When I was growing up, the famous cable cars were considered to be just another part of the mass transit system but they're strictly for the tourists now.
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All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I'd love to visit Frisco one of these days. Sounds like a fascinating city. Here in NY we used to have a trolley system. But sadly they destroyed it when Robert Moses and busses came to dominate the area. They burned all the old trolley cars to make sure they would never again run in NY. The oil companies loved it. I remember as a kid seeing the old trolley tracks on some of the streets. Fortunately we still have our subways which are still a major part of our transportation system.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
SF is a blast. I have never lived in the city itself although I was born there. I haven't been there in many years
but still love the city and it's attractions. There are parts that will leave you believing that it is the world's largest
outdoor freak show but even such "unique" individuals really do add to the character of the city.
I am happy to be out of California but at the same time there are things I do miss about it and SF is one of them.
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