Saturday saw the last ride for the legacy fleet of BART trains. The day started with a festival at MacArthur Station that included food trucks, a raffle, activities for kids and pop-up merchandise for sale, all to commemorate the end of an era.
This is the day for retiring the fleet and getting ready for the fleet of the future.Hundreds of folks showed up for a final ride on the legacy trains; many wearing fashions with the local blue and white brand. Fifty-two years ago, BART cars were shiny and brand new. On Sept. 11, 1972, the first train pulled out of MacArthur station on a 45-minute trip that traveled 24 miles and ended at Fremont station.
As a train operator for twenty-two years, he acknowledges a lot has changed at BART since he’s been employed. He said, "Technology has definitely changed. And passengers, of course, COVID changed a lot. As far as the new trains are concerned, they’re state-of-the-art, everything is software-driven now versus analog like it used to be.
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