Question

What is the rationale of the BART SYSTEM?

Answer 1

• Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. The heavy rail elevated and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties. The rationale behind developing this system was to ease the mounting congestion that was clogging the bridges spanning the Bay. For this purpose, in 1947, a joint Army-Navy review Board concluded that another connecting link between San Francisco and Oakland would be needed in the years ahead to prevent intolerable congestion on the Bay Bridge because of heavy post war migration. For this reason,an underwater tube devoted exclusively to high-speed electric trains purposed to be developed.
• The Commission's least-cost solution to traffic tie-ups was to recommend forming a five-county rapid transit district, whose rationale was to to build and operate a high-speed rapid rail network linking major commercial centers with suburban sub-centers.This was done so that the Bay Area could be preserved as a fine place to live and work, a regional rapid transit system is essential to prevent total dependence on automobiles and freeways. Thus,an underlying rationale of the system was based on environmental concept as well.