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Article #70Re: BART Doesn't Want More People
From: Peter Rosa
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:00
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Phil Kane <philkane [at] commlawcenter [dot] com> wrote in article <cuvyxnarpbzzynjpragrepbz.f6yjp22.pminews@nntp1.ba.best.com>... > On 10 Feb 1999 23:04:15 GMT, Colin R. Leech quoted " woof" in > ba.transportation: > > > WooF (owlswick@netaxs.com) wrote: > > > > > > The original BART staff were set on N*O*T duplicating the BMT > > > (that is, the New York Subway), and said so. This at once BART's > > > best and worst features: it hasn't duplicated the bad features of > > > the Boston/New-York/Philadelphia heavy rail systems, but it > > > hasn't duplicated many of their good features either. > > As I related in nyc.transit at the time, I had a dream a couple > of months ago that I was watching the unloading of "new" BART > cars and they were brand-new BMT Standards [beautiful cars of > 1930s vintge which were the workhorses of the BMT well into the > late 1960s]. 1930s vintage? The BMT Standards were considerably older than that, having entered service over the period from 1914 to 1921. They provided fine service for decades, some of them lasting until 1969. -- Peter Rosa PROSA@prodigy.net
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,7277c45933e62da8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public X-Google-Thread: 112ce4,ec71909ebe3c0d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid112ce4,public From: "Peter Rosa" <PROSA@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: BART Doesn't Want More People Date: 1999/02/11 Message-ID: <01be555c$8342d520$dc5d9cd1@default> X-Deja-AN: 443037893 References: <798vde$lgc@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> <19990203114515.25264.00000035@ng-ce1.aol.com> <79a0en$gvf@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <xcju2x3dpgt.fsf@POBox.COM> <79dn0b$eg7@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> <xcjr9s4epf0.fsf@POBox.COM> <Jym.ybn7ltvrmdb.fsf@igc.org> <79j52c$aid@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <918498440.574395@goliath.heydon.org> <79ojja$8qk@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com> <xcjd83jdw2p.fsf@POBox.COM> <Pine.SUN.3.95.990209202949.16588E-100000@unix2.netaxs.com> <79t39f$u2@freenet-news.carleton.ca> <cuvyxnarpbzzynjpragrepbz.f6yjp22.pminews@nntp1.ba.best.com> X-Auth-User: 000435768/4b31d8462ae28dc9 X-Post-Time: 11 Feb 1999 01:22:14 GMT Organization: Prodigy Services Corp X-Problems-To: abuse@prodigy.net Newsgroups: nyc.transit,ba.transportation