Upgrades have also been made to the process of purchasing fares to improve the experience. BART has modified platform assignments and improved signs and maps to help guide riders to the train they need. Just in time for spring and summer travel, BART has made transformative changes at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) Station to make it easier than ever to take the train. Smaller center chambers will house individual utility and ventilation ducts.BART has made changes to improve SFO BART station so that it’s now easier to use for locals and visitors. Photograph was taken inside one of the two chambers that will house the separate one-way transit tracks of the future San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System. Others will follow at a rate of approximately one every two weeks until mid-1969. Two of the massive 57 steel and concrete sections that will comprise the four mile tube, the longest in the world, already have been lowered into position and connected together in a dredged trench near the Oakland shoreline. Caption from the back of the photo: "This is the first view of the interior of the first section of the underwater transbay ttube, which will extend along the floor of the bay between SF and Oakland. Art Frisch/San Francisco Chronicle Show More Show Less 59 of68 San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tube construction. Present for the event are officials Gordon C. Lowering the last transbay tube section, #57. ApArt Frisch/San Francisco Chronicle Show More Show Lessĥ7 of68 58 of68 San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tube construction. Tunnel Supervisor Bill Orr peers through the hole. The photo shows the break through where Market Street subway meets the transbay tube. Chronicle archives Show More Show Less 20 of68 San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) transbay tube construction. Late in the week, workmen were completing the slow process of sealing up and pumping the water from the cavity-like joint between the last two tube sections (prior to welding them together from the inside), and then Don and Shad were expected to dart all the way across to the Oakland side of the bay. Don Hughes, engineering inspector for BART's consulting engineers, Parsons Brinckerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel, and Shadrach Horde, labor foreman for the tube contractor, Trans-Bay Constructors, Inc. The champagne was a planned gift for the two key workmen who were expected to be the first persons to walk the four mile distance across the floor of the bay when the other end of the tube section also was opened (SF end). The table with the checkered tablecloth, champagne, candle and glasses had been secretly placed in the 328 foot long steel and concrete tube section by workmen at the Bethlehem Shipyard when the section was completed and sealed up for placement several weeks earlier. This is the scene that greeted workmen this week when they opened the hatch and entered one end (eastern) of the 57th final section of BART's underwater transbay tube, which was lowered into position at mid-bay on April 3, 1969. ApShow More Show Lessġ8 of68 19 of68 San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) transbay tube construction. Approximately 400 additional jobs were created at the yard and recruitment of shipfitters, welders and associated craftsmen has begun." Photo courtesy of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Working on fabricating the steel tube sections and ventilation sections has begun at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation's San Francisco shipyard. At the end of the one day line was an advance peek at what San Franciscans will see if they take advantage of BART's open house on Sunday for the station at Montgomery and Market Streets." JBarney Peterson/San Francisco Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of68 San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tube construction. The ride was memorable for the historic touch, but mercifully short. BART officials, PUC commissioners, Market Street business leaders, newsmen, photographers and TV cameramen hauled aboard the Muni's first streetcar, put in service in 1912, for a rumbling, bone-shaking ride down Market Street to BART's new Montgomery Station. From the San Francisco Chronicle: "They rolled out the Municipal Railway's 'Old Iron Monster' yesterday to publicize the public's first chance to visit the cavernous world of steel and concrete the Bay Area Rapid Transit is building below Market Street. 1 of68 San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) construction progress as of July 23, 1970.
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