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Bay Area Rapid Transit
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Bay Area Rapid Transit is a public transportation system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The rapid transit elevated and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in Alameda, Contra Costa, BART operates 5 routes on 104 miles of track connecting 45 stations, plus a 3. 2-mile automated guideway transit line to the Oakland International Airport which adds an additional station. A spur line in eastern Contra Costa County will utilize other rail technologies, with an average of 433,000 weekday passengers and 128.5 million annual passengers in fiscal year 2016, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system in the United States. The systems acronym is pronounced Bart, like the name, BART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, formed in 1957. As of 2017, it is being expanded to San Jose with the consecutive Warm Springs, some of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Systems current coverage area was once served by an electrified streetcar and suburban train system called the Key System. This early 20th-century system once had regular trans-bay traffic across the deck of the Bay Bridge. By the mid-1950s, that system had been dismantled in favor of highway travel, a new rapid-transit system was proposed to take the place of the Key System during the late 1940s, and formal planning for it began in the 1950s. Some funding was secured for the BART system in 1959, passenger service began on September 11,1972, initially just between MacArthur and Fremont. All nine Bay Area counties were involved in the planning and envisioned to be connected by BART, before the system began revenue service, serious problems in the design and operation of the Automatic Train Control system were observed. Three engineers working for BART, Max Blankenzee, Robert Bruder, BART management was dismissive of their concerns, so the three took the issue to the board of directors. All but two of the directors voted in February 1972 to support management and reject the safety concerns, management retaliated against the engineers, firing them in March 1972. The IEEE later filed the first amicus brief in its history to support the engineers. The California Society of Professional Engineers reported to the California State Senate in June 1972 that there were serious safety risks with the ATC. Legislative analyst A. Alan Post, opened an investigation immediately, an ATC failure caused the train to run off the end of the elevated track and crash to the ground, injuring four people on-board, and drawing national and international attention. The “Fremont Flyer” led to a redesign of the train controls. The California State Public Utilities Commission imposed stringent oversight over train operations, the legislative analyst issued the first of three “Post Reports” in November 1972. The report was “sharply critical” of BART, finding that the ATC system was unreliable, the ATC program was mismanaged, and “no solution was in sight. ”The report accused BART of paying excessive fees for engineering services. BART’s general manager called the indictment of safety in the Post Report “not only disappointing, telephone calls were placed manually between stations, instead
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San Jose, California
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San Jose, officially the City of San José, is the economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California. With an estimated 2015 population of 1,026,908, it is the third most populous city in California and the tenth most populous in United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the shore of San Francisco Bay. San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County, the most affluent county in California. San Jose is the largest city in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 8.7 million people respectively. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was inhabited by the Ohlone people, San Jose was founded on November 29,1777, as the Pueblo of San José de Guadalupe, the first civilian town founded in Spanish Alta California. When California gained statehood in 1850, San Jose became the states first capital, following World War II, San Jose experienced an economic boom, with a rapid population growth and aggressive annexation of nearby cities and communities carried out in the 1950s and 60s. The rapid growth of the high-technology and electronics industries further accelerated the transition from a center to an urbanized metropolitan area. Results of the 1990 U. S. Census indicated that San Jose had officially surpassed San Francisco as the most populous city in Northern California, by the 1990s, San Jose and the rest of Silicon Valley had become the global center for the high tech and internet industries. San Jose is considered to be a city, notable for its affluence. San Joses location within the high tech industry, as a cultural, political. San Jose is one of the wealthiest major cities in the United States and the world, and has the third highest GDP per capita in the world, according to the Brookings Institute. Major global tech companies including Cisco Systems, eBay, Adobe Systems, PayPal, Brocade, Samsung, Acer, Prior to European settlement, the area was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans. The first lasting European presence began with a series of Franciscan missions established from 1769 by Junípero Serra, San Jose came under Mexican rule in 1821 after Mexico broke with the Spanish crown. It then became part of the United States, after it capitulated in 1846, on March 27,1850, San Jose became the second incorporated city in the state, with Josiah Belden its first mayor. San Jose was Californias first state capital, and hosted the first, today the Circle of Palms Plaza in downtown is the historical marker for the first state capital. The city was a station on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, in the period 1900 through 1910, San Jose served as a center for pioneering invention, innovation, and impact in both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air flight. These activities were led principally by John Montgomery and his peers, the City of San Jose has established Montgomery Park, a Monument at San Felipe and Yerba Buena Roads, and John J. Montgomery Elementary School in his honor
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Island platform
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An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on twin-track routes due to pragmatic and cost-effective reasons, an alternative arrangement is to position side platforms on either side of the tracks. The historical use of island platforms depends greatly upon the location, the island platform layout is a popular, cost-effective and practical solution in modern railway systems. Island platforms allow facilities such as escalators, elevators, shops, toilets and this is essential for wheelchair accessible stations. An island platform makes it easier for users and the infirm to change services between tracks. Additionally, an island platform layout eliminates the need to construct a crossover or subway between two platforms, however, island platforms may become overcrowded, especially at busy stations, and this can lead to safety issues such as Clapham Common and Angel on the London Underground. However, for the tracks to diverge around the platform, extra width is required along the right-of-way on each approach to the station. Track centers vary for rail systems throughout the world but are normally 3 to 5 meters, if the island platform is 6 meters wide, the tracks have to slew out by the same distance. While this is not a problem on a new line that is being constructed, in addition, a single island platform makes it quite difficult to have through tracks, which are usually between the local tracks. A common configuration in busy locations on high speed lines is a pair of island platforms, high-speed trains can therefore pass straight through the station, while slow trains pass around the platforms. This arrangement also allows the station to serve as a point where trains can be passed by faster trains. The purpose of this design was to reduce unnecessary passenger congestion at a station with a high volume of passengers. Many of the stations on the Great Central Railway were constructed in this form and this was because the line was planned to connect to a Channel Tunnel. Island platforms are a normal sight on Indian railway stations. Almost all railway stations in India consist of island platforms, in Toronto,29 subway stations use island platforms. A slight disadvantage is that crossovers have to be rather long, in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, PATCO uses island platforms in all of its 13 stations, to facilitate one-person train operation. Most elevated stations in Singapores Mass Rapid Transit system use island platforms, the exception is Dover MRT Station, which uses side platforms as it is built on an existing rail line. The planned Canberra MRT Station will also use side platforms, as it also be built on an existing rail line
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Milpitas station
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Milpitas is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Milpitas, California, scheduled to open fall 2017 or 2018. It will be the first station of the Silicon Valley BART extension in addition to the first BART station ever to be built in Santa Clara County, the station is located near the intersection of Capitol Avenue, Great Mall Parkway, and the Montague Expressway. A pedestrian bridge will connect to the elevated Montague light rail station, the station and the $2. 3-billion extension broke ground in 2012, and completion had been expected in 2016. The station occupies 27 acres and will be co-located with the Montague Light Rail station, near the North San Jose/Milpitas high-tech job hub, the station will have a six-story parking garage. The concourse will be at-grade, with two side platforms. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority received a $900 million federal grant for the $2. 3-billion Silicon Valley extension in 2012, buses from Valley Transportation Authority and AC Transit will serve the station
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Daly City station
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Daly City is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located in extreme northern San Mateo County, California, in suburban Daly City, less than one block outside the San Francisco city and county limits. Interstate 280 and California Route 1 run along the immediate west side of the station, the elevated station serves as a terminus for some BART lines. It consists of three tracks with a shared island platform and one side platform. The side platform is used primarily by southbound trains continuing on to Colma, the island platform is used primarily by northbound trains coming from Colma or Milbrae, or southbound trains terminating at the station. Southbound trains terminating at Daly City reverse their direction to make the trip to San Francisco. The station also has a service that makes round trips to San Francisco State University. Service at this station began on November 5,1973, technically, Fremont and Dublin/Pleasanton passengers coming out of the Millbrae/SFO line can transfer for trains at Daly City because Platforms 1 and 2 are for East Bay passengers. Several SamTrans and Muni lines stop and/or terminate at the station, 14R-Mission Rapid - weekday peak-period service to Mission and this line also serves the South of Market area, Mission District, Bernal Heights, Excelsior, and Crocker-Amazon. Also serves San Francisco State University, Golden Gate Park, 28R-19th Avenue Rapid - weekday peak-period service to Chestnut and Fillmore Streets in San Franciscos Marina District, serving the Parkmerced, Sunset, and Richmond districts. This bus line provides service to Route 28, but provides limited stop service. 54-Felton - daily local service to the Bayview/Hunters Point district via Lake Merced, Ingleside, Excelsior, Mission, Bernal Heights, Visitacion Valley, also serves City College of San Francisco and Balboa Park Station. 57-Parkmerced - daily local service to West Portal Station and Lakeshore Plaza at Sloat and 36th Avenue, serving West Portal, Stonestown Galleria, Parkmerced, Sunset, and Lake Merced. 110 - daily service to Linda Mar Shopping Center via Westlake Shopping Center, Pacific Manor Shopping Center, Eureka Square Shopping Center,120 - daily service to Colma BART and Brunswick & Templeton via Westlake District, Skyline Plaza Shopping Center, Serramonte Shopping Center, and Serra Center. 130 - daily service to Colma BART via Mission Street and Hillside Drive, ECR - daily service to Palo Alto Caltrain via Top of the Hill, Mission Street, and the El Camino Real corridor. A free shuttle service, it operates from 6, 30am to 11, 40am and from 3, 20pm to 8, Seton Shuttle to Seton Medical Center. The service operates from 6am to 9am and from noon to 7pm weekdays only, redi-Wheels, SamTrans paratransit service, also operates to the station with waiting shelters located next to the parking garage. San Francisco State University operates a shuttle between its campus and the station five days a week. Service is from 7 AM to 10,30 PM Monday through Thursday, list of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations BART - Daly City Station Overview Transit unlimited profile
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Richmond station (California)
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Richmond Station is an at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit and Amtrak station located in Richmond, California. Each system is served by an island platform, the Capitol Corridor, San Joaquins, and California Zephyr stop here and connect to BART. The station was rebuilt and rededicated on October 18,2007, the Metro Walk - Richmond Transit Village is adjacent, north of the station is a BART rail yard. This station has identified as an important hub in the transportation network for metropolitan. Around that same time the Southern Pacific Railroad opened a station just south of the current station at MacDonald Avenue, BART service at this station began along dedicated tracks that paralleled the SP line on January 29,1973. Amtrak service to the station started, using the SP lines tracks, a station house for the Amtrak service was constructed in 1984. A transit village and rebuild of the approach to the station was started in 2007. A transit store opened at the station in August 2008, joining other major stations in the system, the Coast Starlight no longer stops at Richmond as of January 14,2013. The station is served by two bus agencies, AC Transit provides a variety of local and regional service. Routes 70,71, 72M,74, and 76 provide local intra-city service and also feeder service into the BART, routes 376 and 800 both provide late night service. It is the route in the All Nighter regional Bay Area network. There is also a free Kaiser Shuttle service to the nearby Richmond Medical Center, of the 74 California stations served by Amtrak, Richmond was the 16th-busiest in FY2012, boarding or alighting an average of about 773 passengers daily. List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations BART - Richmond Station Overview Capitol Corridor Richmond Station Page Amtrak Station Information Page Richmond --Great American Stations
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Alum Rock station
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Alum Rock BART station is a proposed underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in eastern San Jose, California, located near Highway 101 and Santa Clara Street. Preceded by the Berryessa BART station, it would be the first station of the Phase II portion of the Silicon Valley BART extension, the station would have direct service to Santa Clara, Richmond, and San Francisco/Daly City. An initial extension was built from Fremont to Warm Springs station in the Warm Springs District and this will be followed by the Berryessa Extension into eastern San Jose. If funding is secured, construction is slated to begin in 2018 and this station will be located between the Berryessa and Downtown San Jose Station. This station will connect with the VTA buses
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Santa Clara station (California)
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The Santa Clara Depot is one of two heavy railway stations in Santa Clara, California. The Santa Clara station has a platform serving the southbound Caltrain track. The island platform is connected to the platform by a pedestrian tunnel. Additional tracks are northeast of the Caltrain tracks used by Amtrak, Altamont Corridor Express, the platforms have been rebuilt to eliminate the hold out rule and permit ACE and Amtrak Capitol Corridor trains to stop at the station. The original 24x50 board and batten depot was one of the two way stations built between San Francisco and San Jose, plans for a railroad linking San Francisco and San Jose began as early as 1851. Though the 1851 scheme ultimately failed, the incorporation of the San Francisco, the first passenger service to San Francisco started in January 1864. The Southern Pacific Railroad acquired the San Francisco & San Jose Railroad in 1868, the depot, originally on the east side of the tracks, was moved to its present location in 1877 and attached to the existing 32x50 freight house constructed several years earlier. Because of the volume of agricultural freight shipped from the depot. On November 1,1877, the San Jose Mercury reported the facility nearing completion, following construction of the railroad, farming and fruit-related industries developed in the Santa Clara area, with the depot serving as a focal point for shipping. Rail service provided the link to San Francisco and, in the later 1870s. Typical of these efforts were those of James A. Dawson, by the turn of the century, the Pratt-Low Preserving Company, the largest fruit packing plant in central California, was located just south of the depot. The California Department of Transportation acquired the depot from Southern Pacific in 1980 and it was placed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. In cooperation with the South Bay Historical Railroad Society, a group founded the same year, they began renovation work in 1986 on the depot. A group of volunteers spent over 25,000 hours hauling away debris, replacing support timbers, siding, exterior decking and interior flooring, scraping peeling paint, painting and many other repairs. The station is a transportation center, with Caltrain and Altamont Corridor Express train service. Bus service is extensive and includes limited-stop and, since July 2005, Amtrak Capitol Corridor trains began stopping at the station on May 21,2012, giving Caltrain a second direct connection to Amtrak. Of Amtraks 74 California stations, Santa Clara University was the 73rd-busiest in FY2012, rather, it was decided that two Peninsula stations would be sufficient, one in Palo Alto or Redwood City, and the other serving the larger San Francisco International Airport. This station is planned as the station for the BART extension to San Jose in the second
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Silicon Valley BART extension
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The Silicon Valley BART extension will expand service by Bay Area Rapid Transit into Santa Clara County, from its former terminus at the Fremont station in Alameda County. The extension has seven stations in three phases, the $790-million first phase was the Warm Springs/South Fremont station, that opened in March 2017. It broke ground in 2009, and completion had been expected in 2014, the $2. 3-billion second-phase has the Milpitas and Berryessa stations, both expected to open in fall 2017 or 2018. The second phase broke ground in 2012, and completion had been expected in 2016, a partnership between BART and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is building the second phase, while BART will operate and maintain the entire extension. The proposed $4. 7-billion third phase remains unfunded, targeted for completion in 2025–2026, it would add three new subway stations west of Berryessa, Alum Rock, Downtown San Jose, and Diridon/Arena, and a new surface station in Santa Clara. Santa Clara County was originally going to have part of the BART system. Minor service at Palo Alto right over the border from San Mateo County was also planned originally, in 2000, Santa Clara County voters approved a 30-year half-cent sales tax increase to fund BART, which took effect in 2006. To make up for a shortfall in projected federal funding, an increase in the tax by ⅛ of 1% was proposed if additional federal funding were secured. The economy worsened in 2009, and the 2000 sales tax was projected to generate $7 billion which was short of the originally expected $11 billion, as a consequence, the number of planned stations was reduced. In addition, the line from Berryessa to downtown San Jose was delayed until 2025 and this line may or may not include Santa Clara. Construction of the Warm Springs extension began in 2009, VTA awarded $770 million to Skanska-Shimmick-Herzog in 2011 for the first phase of the Berryessa extension, and the federal government granted $900 million for the project in 2012. It was scheduled to open in 2016, despite substantial incentives if the opening were pulled in by 18 months to 2016, the Milpitas and Berryessa stations are expected to open in fall 2017 or 2018. VTA sought funding from the federal New Starts program in 2016, a half-cent 30-year sales tax passed in the 2016 elections, to raise $6.0 to $6.5 billion with up to 25% of this for BART or up to $1.6 billion. VTA also sought $1.5 billion from New Starts, and $750 million from the California Cap, the $790 million extension to Warm Springs is five miles long, the first part of BARTs Silicon Valley extension. The original estimate was $890 million, the cost of the subway segment under the lake in Fremont was reduced by 45% from the original estimate of $249 million to $136 million. The station opened on March 25,2017, the extension broke ground in 2009. Construction of the began in 2011, and was expected to take three and a half years. Construction of the $2.3 billion Berryessa extension started in 2012, while the opening has been delayed to fall 2017, or 2018, transit officials claimed that the project was ahead of schedule as of 2016
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Rolling stock
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The term rolling stock originally referred to any vehicles that move on a railway. It has since expanded to include the vehicles used by businesses on roadways. It usually includes both powered and unpowered vehicles, for locomotives, railroad cars, coaches, and wagons. Rolling stock is considered to be an asset, or close to it, since the value of the vehicle can be readily estimated. The term contrasts with fixed stock, which is a term for the track, signals, stations, other buildings, electric wires. In Great Britain, types of rolling stock were given code names and these codes were telegraphese, somewhat analogous to the SMS language of today. List of railway vehicles Great Western Railway telegraphic codes Great Western Railway wagons The dictionary definition of rolling stock at Wiktionary
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Acre
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The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is defined as the area of 1 chain by 1 furlong, lucia, St. Helena, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos, the United Kingdom, the United States and the US Virgin Islands. The international symbol of the acre is ac, the most commonly used acre today is the international acre. In the United States both the international acre and the US survey acre are in use, but differ by two parts per million, see below. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land, one international acre is defined as exactly 4,046.8564224 square metres. An acre was defined in the Middle Ages, being the amount of land that could be ploughed in one day with a yoke of oxen. One acre equals 0.0015625 square miles,4,840 square yards,43,560 square feet or about 4,047 square metres. While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are definitions of a yard. A square enclosing one acre is approximately 69.57 yards, as a unit of measure, an acre has no prescribed shape, any area of 43,560 square feet is an acre. In the international yard and pound agreement of 1959 the United States, consequently, the international acre is exactly 4,046.8564224 square metres. The US survey acre is about 4,046.872609874252 square metres, its value is based on an inch defined by 1 metre =39.37 inches exactly. Surveyors in the United States use both international and survey feet, and consequently, both varieties of acre. Since the difference between the US survey acre and international acre is only about a quarter of the size of an A4 sheet of paper, areas are seldom measured with sufficient accuracy for the different definitions to be detectable. In India, residential plots are measured in cents or decimal, in Sri Lanka the division of an acre into 160 perches or 4 roods is common. To be more exact, one acre is 90.75 percent of a 100 yards long by 53.33 yards wide American football field, the full field, including the end zones, covers approximately 1.32 acres. For residents of countries, the acre might be envisaged as approximately half of a 105 metres long by 68 metres wide association football pitch. It may also be remembered as 44,000 square feet, in English it was historically spelled aker. The acre was approximately the amount of land tillable by a yoke of oxen in one day and this explains one definition as the area of a rectangle with sides of length one chain and one furlong
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Hectare
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The hectare is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to 100 ares and primarily used in the measurement of land as a metric replacement for the imperial acre. An acre is about 0.405 hectare and one hectare contains about 2.47 acres, in 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1⁄100 km2. When the metric system was further rationalised in 1960, resulting in the International System of Units, the are was not included as a recognised unit. The hectare, however, remains as a non-SI unit accepted for use with the SI units, the metric system of measurement was first given a legal basis in 1795 by the French Revolutionary government. At the first meeting of the CGPM in 1889 when a new standard metre, manufactured by Johnson Matthey & Co of London was adopted, in 1960, when the metric system was updated as the International System of Units, the are did not receive international recognition. The units that were catalogued replicated the recommendations of the CGPM, many farmers, especially older ones, still use the acre for everyday calculations, and convert to hectares only for official paperwork. Farm fields can have long histories which are resistant to change, with names such as the six acre field stretching back hundreds of years. The names centiare, deciare, decare and hectare are derived by adding the standard metric prefixes to the base unit of area. The centiare is a synonym for one square metre, the deciare is ten square metres. The are is a unit of area, equal to 100 square metres and it was defined by older forms of the metric system, but is now outside of the modern International System of Units. It is commonly used to measure real estate, in particular in Indonesia, India, and in French-, Portuguese-, Slovakian-, Serbian-, Czech-, Polish-, Dutch-, in Russia and other former Soviet Union states, the are is called sotka. It is used to describe the size of suburban dacha or allotment garden plots or small city parks where the hectare would be too large, the decare is derived from deka, the prefix for 10 and are, and is equal to 10 ares or 1000 square metres. It is used in Norway and in the former Ottoman areas of the Middle East, the hectare, although not strictly a unit of SI, is the only named unit of area that is accepted for use within the SI. The United Kingdom, United States, Burma, and to some extent Canada instead use the acre, others, such as South Africa, published conversion factors which were to be used particularly when preparing consolidation diagrams by compilation. In many countries, metrication redefined or clarified existing measures in terms of metric units, non-SI units accepted for use with the International System of Units
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San Jose Flea Market
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The San Jose Flea Market, located in the heart of north-east San Jose, California, was founded by George Bumb Sr. in March 1960. He had the idea to open a flea market while working in the solid waste and he witnessed abundant items thrown away every day and realized he could make a profit from these discarded items. After visiting swap meets in Los Angeles and Paris’ Thieves Market for inspiration, George Bumb Sr. established the San Jose Flea Market at 1590 Berryessa Road in San Jose, California. He bought 120 acres of an old meat-processing plant and remodeled it to create a market with an initial 20 vendors, now, the San Jose Flea Market is the largest open-air market in the U. S. and has become a California landmark with over four million visitors. The San Jose Flea Market has been owned and operated by the Bumb family since its inception. Brian Bumb Sr. son of George Bumb Sr. now supervises and is owner of the San Jose Flea Market along his other brothers, George Bumb Jr. Other members of the Bumb family own vendor stalls, work at food carts, joe Bumb, cousin of Brian Bumb, owns American Precious Metals, an open-air store within the flea market that sells mostly jewelry. The eight miles worth of aisles allows for over 2000 vendors to sell an array of goods, with a population and land mass larger than some small towns, the Flea Market is a major contributor to the income of many Silicon Valley families. Along with the items sold at the Flea Market, there are also many restaurants that are owned and operated by The Flea Market, Inc. Additionally, the Flea Market features traveling food carts that sell beer, soda, the largest section of the Flea Market is its Farmers Market, which stretches a quarter of a mile through the market and contains fruit and vegetables from California’s farmers. The Flea Market features a variety of entertainment options every weekend, there are two stages on the Flea Market grounds, one of which consistently reserved for a Mexican Mariachi band. A vintage carousel, an arcade, three playgrounds, and carnival rides are among the attractions developed at the Flea Market for children, on Tuesday, November 29,2006, a fire burned down 24 stands of Produce Row at the San Jose Flea Market. At 6,02 p. m, a 911 call was made and dozens of fire crews, although the fire was contained at 7,15 p. m, $200,000 worth of merchandise was destroyed. Burnt nuts, fruit, plants, and plastic were all over the ground. Theresa Bumb, daughter of Brian Bumb Sr. stated that they would do their best to help those who were affected by the fire by offering free or reduced rent. On August 14,2007, the San Jose City Council approved the proposal to reconstruct the 120-acre property on Berryessa Road to allow for a 2, the Council took suggestions from the public and concluded in an approval of the motion by a 10 to 1 vote. The lone disapproving vote was cast because the Council member felt the requirements the city gave the Bumb family were excessive, the motion approved the Bumb Family’s plan to potentially develop the 120-acre lot that is the current home of the San Jose Flea Market. The approval of the project would provide more benefits than just an increase in housing, the Flea Market location is also a future Bay Area Rapid Transit station site
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Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
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It is one of the governing parties for the Caltrain commuter rail line that serves the county. In 1969, Santa Clara County had three private bus companies, all of which were in financial trouble, Peninsula Transit, San Jose City Lines. The California Legislature passed a Santa Clara County Transit District Act in 1969, however, the Act did not supply any funding for the new district. The formation of the Santa Clara County Transit District was rejected in 1969 and 1970 before it was approved by county voters on June 6,1972. The SCCTD took over the operations of the three old bus companies on January 1,1973, on September 26,1974, the county Board of Supervisors dissolved the Public Works Department. Non-transit operations went into a new General Services Agency, while transit operations were placed into a new Santa Clara County Transportation Agency. In its early years the Santa Clara County Transportation District approached the task of replacing the bus fleet it inherited from its predecessors, at first the district bought propane-fueled Twin Coaches and Gilligs. SCCTD switched to an all-diesel fleet after six buses went up in flames between December 1977 and April 1978, at the time, critics referred to the buses as rolling propane bombs. On March 6,1976, Santa Clara County voters approved a half-cent sales tax, Measure A, in 1977, the primary Overhaul and Repair Facility was built at the Cerone Yard. Also in 1977, County Supervisors decided to change the bus fleet from propane to diesel, by 1979, three additional bus yards were built and commissioned into service. Another issue was improving the diversity of its workforce, in December 1978, the SCCTD approved an affirmative action plan for the Transportation Agency. After a long battle, the U. S. Supreme Court by a 6-3 majority upheld the gender component of the plan against a civil rights challenge on March 25,1987. On January 1,1995, the SCCTA merged with the county Congestion Management Agency to become the SCVTA, for convenience, the acronym was later shortened to VTA. In 1996, voters approved a half-cent general county sales tax, Measure B, the measure was challenged, but in 1998, the California Supreme Court ruled that the two measure system was valid. The tax was to be collected for ten years, in 2000, voters approved a 30-year extension of the 1996 sales tax to fund an extension of Bay Area Rapid Transit to Santa Clara. The measure was placed on the ballot by the VTA and does not include funding specifically for highway projects, the measure passed with 70% of the vote. Revenues from the tax would not begin being collected until April 2006. After 2000, due to the dot-com bust, existing revenue sources declined and VTA was forced to cut service, VTA introduced a series of fare increases between 1998 and 2005
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Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District
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Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, or simply Santa Cruz METRO, provides bus service throughout Santa Cruz County, California. Complete transit itineraries between Santa Cruz and San Francisco Bay Area cities and major airports are available from iridethebus. org, Santa Cruz METRO was created in 1968 as a special district within Santa Cruz County with taxing authority. Service was initially to the cities of Santa Cruz, Capitola, Santa Cruz METRO extended service to Watsonville, Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley in 1974. In 1979, voters approved a measure to change the financing of Santa Cruz METRO from a property tax to a 1/2 cent sales tax. The Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach Highway 17 Express service between Santa Cruz and San Jose started as a bus service after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake closed Highway 17. A strike in September 2005 lasted for 35 days and stranded up to 23,000 riders, in 2011 fixed route service was severely cut then restored mere months later. In 2012 Santa Cruz METRO received grant funding to construct the Judy K. Souza Operations Facility, Santa Cruz Metro routes and descriptions Local 521 - Santa Cruz METRO SEIU
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Highway 17 Express
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The service is so called because it travels on California State Route 17. It is operated by the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, the bus service is a consolidation of corridor-based commuter service between Santa Cruz and job centers in the Silicon Valley, with more limited service beyond Santa Cruz to Soquel. During the week the service extends beyond Diridon Station with direct service to downtown San Jose, one-way fare is $7.00, with half-price fare available for seniors and disabled riders. A day pass that is good for all VTA bus. The VTA EcoPass Express is good for travel on the Highway 17 Express service, most buses are equipped with bike racks capable of holding three bicycles. Currently, up to two bicycles are allowed inside the bus in the used to secure disabled passengers contained within mobility devices, at the coach operators discretion. The service is financed and operated by and benefits Amtrak, Capitol Corridor, VTA, a temporary commuter express bus service started after landslides from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake closed Highway 17. At this time the route spanned from Scotts Valley to Santa Clara, in response to the needs of a loyal group of riders, Santa Cruz Metro continued the service after Highway 17 reopened. When service was consolidated with Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach in 2004, the route was extended to the center in downtown Santa Cruz. Caltrans anticipated a ridership of 7,000 riders per month at the end of 2004, in December 2007, free wifi service was added to all Highway 17 Express buses. In February 2015, Santa Cruz Metro reported 31,102 total riders,1,239 on the average weekday, Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach Capitol Corridor VTA Santa Cruz Metro and Fares Highway 17 Express on LocalWiki Trainweb
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San Joaquin Regional Transit District
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San Joaquin RTD operates 36 fixed routes to the Stockton metropolitan area, including 2 Metro Express routes, RTD’s Bus Rapid Transit service. MV also operates two RTD Intercity routes connecting Stockton with Lodi, Tracy, and Manteca, total annual ridership for calendar year 2008 was 5 million trips, and Interregional ridership for fiscal year 2008 totaled 328,476 trips. In late 1979, SMTD moved operations from Grant and Channel Streets to its current Lindsay Street facility. In 1985, SMTD adopted the nickname “SMART. ”In 1990, SMART began providing fully accessible fixed route and Dial-A-Ride services for the elderly and that same year, SJRTD expanded its Interregional Commuter service to offer additional routes to commuters traveling to the Bay Area and Sacramento. In 2004, SJRTD adopted “San Joaquin RTD” as its new corporate identity and developed a new logo. That same year, RTD introduced low-emission diesel-electric hybrid buses via its “Flower Bus, ” with a full-wrap sunflower display designed to complement the slogan “A Breath of Fresh Air. ”At the end of 2006, RTD opened the Downtown Transit Center for the public, with a floor for employee offices. ABQ RIDE eventually backed out of the consortium, choosing to order buses directly from New Flyer instead, San Joaquin RTDs first low-emission hybrid bus was delivered and introduced into service in 2004. In September 2007, RTD had 33 hybrid buses, representing 30% of its full-size Metro fleet, RTD chose hybrid buses because they use an electric motor and a smaller diesel engine to save fuel and protect the environment. RTD’s low-emission hybrid buses reduce carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and particulate matter up to 90%, at the present time RTD has several different configurations of its Gillig Advantage Diesel/Electric Hybrid buses The 6000 series is currently the buses being operated on RTDs Metro Express Route 40. These buses produced by Gillig have been designed for Bus Rapid Transit. They have a design to distinguish them from other RTD coaches. The 6000 series buses have a low floor special design that is wider in the front of the coach to create access for wheelchair users. Wheelchair users board the coach using a ramp deployed out the front door and these buses also have a wider rear door for faster boarding/exiting. The 6200 series is RTDs 29-foot configuration of the hybrid bus and these buses have one door for entering/exiting. The 6300 series is RTDs 35-foot low floor configuration of the hybrid bus and these buses have dual door access for boarding and alighting. The 6400 series is RTDs 40-foot low floor configuration of the hybrid bus and these buses have dual door access for boarding and alighting. These hybrid buses are equipped with Continental-Siemens TransitMaster CAD\AVL technology which provides ADA-compliant voice announcement, for passenger and operator safety, the buses are equipped with GE Digital Security cameras. Hybrid bus headsigns are produced by TwinVision, each hybrid bus is equipped with bike racks for two bikes
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Rapid transit
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Rapid transit, also known as heavy rail, metro, subway, tube, or underground, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. The stations typically have high platforms, without steps inside the trains and they are typically integrated with other public transport and often operated by the same public transport authorities. However, some transit systems have at-grade intersections between a rapid transit line and a road or between two rapid transit lines. It is unchallenged in its ability to transport large numbers of people quickly over short distances with little use of land, variations of rapid transit include people movers, small-scale light metro, and the commuter rail hybrid S-Bahn. The worlds first rapid-transit system was the partially underground Metropolitan Railway which opened as a railway in 1863. In 1868, New York opened the elevated West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, china has the largest number of rapid transit systems in the world. The worlds longest single-operator rapid transit system by length is the Shanghai Metro. The worlds largest single rapid transit service provider by both length of revenue track (665 miles and number of stations is the New York City Subway. The busiest rapid transit systems in the world by annual ridership are the Tokyo subway system, the Seoul Metropolitan Subway, the Moscow Metro, the Beijing Subway, Metro is the most common term for underground rapid transit systems used by non-native English speakers. One of these terms may apply to a system, even if a large part of the network runs at ground level. In Scotland, however, the Glasgow Subway underground rapid transit system is known as the Subway, in the US, underground mass transit systems are primarily known as subways, whereas the term metro is a shortened reference to a metropolitan area. In that vein, Chicagos commuter rail system, serving the area, is called Metra. Exceptions in naming rapid transit systems are Washington DCs subway system the Washington Metro, Los Angeles Metro Rail, and the Miami Metrorail, the opening of Londons steam-hauled Metropolitan Railway in 1863 marked the beginning of rapid transit. Initial experiences with steam engines, despite ventilation, were unpleasant, experiments with pneumatic railways failed in their extended adoption by cities. Electric traction was more efficient, faster and cleaner than steam, in 1890 the City & South London Railway was the first electric-traction rapid transit railway, which was also fully underground. Both railways were merged into London Underground. The 1893 Liverpool Overhead Railway was designed to use electric traction from the outset, budapest in Hungary and Glasgow, Chicago and New York all converted or purpose-designed and built electric rail services. Advancements in technology have allowed new automated services, hybrid solutions have also evolved, such as tram-train and premetro, which incorporate some of the features of rapid transit systems
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Light rail
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Light rail, light rail transit or fast tram is urban public transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way. A few light rail networks tend to have closer to rapid transit or even commuter rail. Other light rail networks are tram-like in nature and partially operate on streets, Light rail systems are found throughout the world, on all inhabited continents. They have been popular in recent years due to their lower capital costs. The term light rail was coined in 1972 by the U. S, Urban Mass Transportation Administration to describe new streetcar transformations that were taking place in Europe and the United States. In Germany the term Stadtbahn was used to describe the concept, and many in UMTA wanted to adopt the direct translation, however, UMTA finally adopted the term light rail instead. Light in this context is used in the sense of intended for light loads and fast movement, the infrastructure investment is also usually lighter than would be found for a heavy rail system. The Transportation Research Board defined light rail in 1977 as a mode of urban transportation utilizing predominantly reserved, electrically propelled rail vehicles operate singly or in trains. LRT provides a range of passenger capabilities and performance characteristics at moderate costs. Light rail is a generic international English phrase for these types of rail systems, the use of the generic term light rail avoids some serious incompatibilities between British and American English. The word trolley is used as a synonym for streetcar in the United States. A further difference arose because, while Britain abandoned all of its trams except Blackpool after World War II, when these cities upgraded to new technology, they called it light rail to differentiate it from their existing streetcars since some continued to operate both the old and new systems. Conventional rail technologies including high-speed, freight, commuter/regional, and metro/subway/elevated urban transit systems are considered heavy rail, people movers and personal rapid transit are even lighter, at least in terms of capacity. Monorail is a technology that has been more successful in specialized services than in a commuter transit role. Due to varying definitions, it is hard to distinguish between what is called light rail, and other forms of urban and commuter rail, a system described as light rail in one city may be considered to be a streetcar or tram system in another. Conversely, some lines that are called light rail are in very similar to rapid transit, in recent years. Some light rail systems, such as Sprinter, bear little similarity to urban rail, in the United States, light rail has become a catch-all term to describe a wide variety of passenger rail systems. There is a significant difference in cost between these different classes of light rail transit, tram-like systems are often less expensive than metro-like systems by a factor of two or more
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Automated guideway transit
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Automated guideway transit is a fully automated, driverless, grade-separated transit system in which vehicles are automatically guided along a guideway. The vehicles are often rubber tired, but other systems including steel wheels, air cushion, the guideway normally provides both physical support, like a road, as well as the guidance. In the case of systems, the two are often the same in the same way that a rail line provides both support and guidance for a train. For systems with multiple routes, most AGT systems use smaller wheels riding on the guideway to steer the vehicle using conventional steering arrangements like those on a car. AGT covers a variety of systems, from limited people mover systems, like those commonly found at airports. In the people mover role the term automated people mover is sometimes used, between the two are larger vehicles sized for around 20 passengers, sometimes known as group rapid transit, which blend features of the PRTs and larger systems. Subways were too expensive to install in areas of lower density - smaller cities or the suburbs of larger ones - which often suffer the same problems as larger cities. Buses could be introduced in these areas, but did not offer the capacities or speeds that made them an attractive alternative to car ownership. Cars drive directly from origin to destination, while buses generally work on a model that can up to double trip length. Stops along the route increase this even more, AGT offered a solution that fit between these extremes. Much of the cost of a system is due to the large vehicle sizes. The large vehicles are a side-effect of the need to have space between the vehicles, known as headway, for safety reasons due to the limited sightlines in tunnels. Given large headways and limited speed due to stops, the only way to increase passenger capacity is to increase the size of the vehicle. Headway can be reduced via automation, a technique that was becoming feasible in the 1960s, everything from track supports to station size can be reduced, with similar reductions in capital costs. Additionally, the vehicles allow for a wider variety of suspension methods, from conventional steel wheels, to rubber tires, air cushion vehicles. Since the system has to be automated in order to reduce the headways enough to be worthwhile, one key problem in an automated system is the negotiation of turns in the right-of-way - the steering system. The simplest solution is to use a rigid guideway, like conventional rails or steel rollercoasters, for lighter AGTs, these solutions were over-specified given the size of the vehicle, so the guideway was often separate from the running surface. A suspension-like system is needed to out the imperfections in the guideway
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Alameda County, California
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Alameda County is a county in the state of California in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,510,271, Alameda County is included in the San Francisco Bay Area, occupying much of the East Bay region. The county was formed on March 25,1853, from a portion of Contra Costa County. The Spanish word alameda means a place where trees grow. The willow and sycamore trees along the banks of the river reminded the early explorers of a road lined with trees, the county seat at the time it was formed was located at Alvarado, now part of Union City. In 1856 it was moved to San Leandro, where the county courthouse was destroyed by the devastating 1868 quake on the Hayward Fault, the county seat was then re-established in the town of Brooklyn from 1872-1875. Brooklyn is now part of Oakland, which has been the county seat since 1873, much of what is now considered an intensively urban region, with major cities, was developed as a trolley car suburb of San Francisco in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The annual county fair is held at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, the fair runs for three weekends from June to July. Attractions include horse racing, carnival rides, 4-H exhibits, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 821 square miles, of which 739 square miles is land and 82 square miles is water. The San Francisco Bay borders the county on the west, the crest of the Berkeley Hills form part of the northeastern boundary, and reach into the center of the county. A coastal plain several miles wide lines the bay, and is Oaklands most populous region, Livermore Valley lies in the eastern part of the county. Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge A2014 analysis found Alameda County to be the 4th most racially diverse county in the United States, the 2010 United States Census reported that Alameda County had a population of 1,510,271. The population density was 2,047.6 people per square mile, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 339,889 persons,16. 4% Mexican,0. 8% Puerto Rican,0. 2% Cuban,5. 1% Other Hispanic. 26. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.31. In the county, the population was out with 24. 6% under the age of 18,9. 6% from 18 to 24,33. 9% from 25 to 44,21. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 34 years, for every 100 females there were 96.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.00 males, the median income for a household in the county was $55,946, and the median income for a family was $65,857. Males had an income of $47,425 versus $36,921 for females
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Oakland, California
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Oakland /ˈoʊklənd/ is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. The city was incorporated in 1852, Oaklands territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. Its land served as a resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco. In the late 1860s, Oakland was selected as the terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Francisco citizens moved to Oakland, enlarging the citys population, increasing its housing stock and it continued to grow in the 20th century with its busy port, shipyards, and a thriving automobile manufacturing industry. Oakland is known for its sustainability practices, including a top-ranking for usage of electricity from renewable resources, in addition, due to a steady influx of immigrants during the 20th century, along with thousands of African-American war-industry workers who relocated from the Deep South during the 1940s. Oakland is the most ethnically diverse city in the country. The earliest known inhabitants were the Huchiun Indians, who lived there for thousands of years, the Huchiun belonged to a linguistic grouping later called the Ohlone. In Oakland, they were concentrated around Lake Merritt and Temescal Creek, in 1772, the area that later became Oakland was claimed, with the rest of California, by Spanish settlers for the King of Spain. In the early 19th century, the Spanish crown granted the East Bay area to Luis María Peralta for his Rancho San Antonio, the grant was confirmed by the successor Mexican republic upon its independence from Spain. Upon his death in 1842, Peralta divided his land among his four sons, Most of Oakland fell within the shares given to Antonio Maria and Vicente. The portion of the parcel that is now Oakland was called encinal—Spanish for oak grove—due to the oak forest that covered the area. In 1851, three men—Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon—began developing what is now downtown Oakland, on May 4,1852, the Town of Oakland incorporated. Two years later, on March 25,1854, Oakland re-incorporated as the City of Oakland, with Horace Carpentier elected the first mayor, the city and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s. In 1868, the Central Pacific constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, a number of horsecar and cable car lines were constructed in Oakland during the latter half of the 19th century. The first electric streetcar set out from Oakland to Berkeley in 1891, at the time of incorporation, Oakland consisted of the territory that lay south of todays major intersection of San Pablo Avenue, Broadway, and Fourteenth Street. The city gradually annexed farmlands and settlements to the east and the north, Oaklands rise to industrial prominence, and its subsequent need for a seaport, led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902. This resulted in the town of Alameda being made an island
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19th Street Oakland station
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19th Street Oakland is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station located at 19th Street and Broadway in Downtown Oakland. It is an official transfer station along the BART system. This station is identifiable by the brickwork on the interior. At all times during the day, there are timed cross-platform transfers between the lines, SFO/Millbrae-Pittsburg/Bay Point and Fremont-Richmond. There are no timed transfers between lines, because of only one southbound track. A portion of Will Smiths film The Pursuit of Happyness was filmed at this station, along with 12th Street Station the station serves as an essential feeder of commuters to the job center that is downtown Oakland. A temporary attraction, the Uptown Art Park sculpture garden, opened in 2013 and this station will very likely see more interior retail development due to BARTs ongoing relationship with master planner TransMart, publicly announced January 2011. As of January 2011, the station has interior double-decker bike racks at the gate level. A station canopy was added to the 20th Street and Broadway entrance in March 2015, the structure was part of a $2 million pilot project to test the feasibility of installing canopies at other BART stations. List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations BART – 19th St. Oakland Station Overview
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Oakland Coliseum station
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They are located in Oakland, California, United States, and are connected to each other, and to the Oakland Coliseum and the Oracle Arena by pedestrian bridges. BART and Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority, Capitol Corridors administration agency, in addition to the Coliseum–Oakland International Airport AGT line, AC Transit bus routes 73 and 805 also provide service between the BART station and Oakland International Airport. BARTs Coliseum station consists of an island platform with the concourse mezzanine at ground level. The BART to OAK Airport station has a track and side platform. Capitol Corridors Oakland Coliseum station, the newest Capitol Corridor station and it is unstaffed, but has an electronic ticketing system. In 2002, CCJPA, in conjunction with Caltrans and the City of Oakland, in October 2009, Oakland City Council voted its approval for a 3. 2-mile extension of BART to Oakland International Airport. Preliminary construction began in late 2010, the service began on November 22,2014, fares for the BART to OAK Airport service are $6. Of the 44 BART stations open at the time, Coliseum station was the 16th-busiest in FY2014, Oakland Coliseum served an average of approximately 157 Amtrak passengers daily in 2015
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Fruitvale station
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Fruitvale is a metro station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system located in the Fruitvale District of Oakland, California, United States. The station consists of two elevated side platforms with the mezzanine at ground level. The redevelopment of the station area from a parking lot to a mixed-use transit village has served as a model for transit-oriented development planning elsewhere in the Bay Area. Service at this station began on September 11,1972, on January 1,2009, BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant III at the Fruitvale BART station. PST, BART Police were responding to reports of a fight on a BART train inbound from San Francisco, Grant was face down on the platform, but Mehserle later said that he couldnt get Grants arms and feared that he was reaching inside his waistband. Mehserle drew his weapon and shot him in the back. Grant died seven hours later at Highland Hospital, video recorded by other riders at the scene were later aired on local television. In 2013 a movie was made about this incident, filmed on location, List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations List of United States bike stations BART - Fruitvale Station Overview
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Lake Merritt station
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The Lake Merritt Bay Area Rapid Transit station is located in Downtown Oakland on Madison Street near Chinatown, Laney College, The Oakland Museum of California, and the iconic Lake Merritt. This station consists of an island platform, service at this station began on September 11,1972.75 miles away. A relatively careful dismantling of the headquarters building was completed in 2010. List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations BART - Lake Merritt Station Overview
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MacArthur station (BART)
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MacArthur is a rapid transit station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in Oakland, California, United States. It is the largest station in the BART system, being the one with four platform tracks in regular use. Service through MacArthur is timed for cross-platform transfers between the lines that pass through the station. MacArthur station is in North Oakland, in the median of Route 24 just north of its interchange with I-580, the surrounding area is mostly low-density residential, making MacArthur station a commuting hub. The current plan calls for 624 residential units as well as 42,500 square feet of retail space, the redevelopment is supported by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District board member, Lynette Sweet. Connecting AC Transit transit lines at this station include Line 31 to Alameda Point and 57 to Foothill Square, MacArthur station opened on September 11,1972, as the northern terminus of the inaugural BART line, which ran to Fremont. Upon the opening of the Transbay Tube, the station began to serve Cross-Bay trains to San Francisco, MacArthur station was built with cross-platform interchanges in mind. There are two platforms and four tracks. Platforms 3 and 4 serve the Pittsburg/Bay Point-SFO/Millbrae line, Platform 3 goes Northbound toward Pittsburg/Bay Point, connections between the lines are timed for Southbound passengers between Platforms 2 and 4. This is not the case for Northbound passengers, as a transfer point already exists further south at 19th Street Station. MacArthur tends to be crowded in the due to high transfer volume between two lines where only a few people get off while many are trying to board. List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations Official BART station page
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Oakland International Airport station
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Oakland International Airport station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station on the Coliseum–Oakland International Airport line in Oakland, California, United States. This station is on the systems Automated Guideway Transit spur line, the station opened for public service on November 22,2014. The vehicles also run every 20 minutes from 11 PM to 12 AM every day, upon opening, the Coliseum–Oakland International Airport line replaced the AirBART shuttle bus service. Unlike AirBART, the Oakland Airport Connector system is integrated into the BART fare system. Ticketing machines and faregates for this line are at Coliseum Station, BART - Oakland Intl Airport Station Overview
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Oakland International Airport
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Oakland International Airport is an international airport in Oakland, California, United States. It is located approximately 10 miles south of Downtown and it is owned by the Port of Oakland. The airport has service to cities in the United States, Mexico. Cargo flights fly to cities in the United States, Canada, Oakland is a focus city for Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Air. As of August 2015 Southwest has 120 daily departures on peak-travel days of the week, Alaska Airlines combined with sister-carrier Horizon Air has been the second-busiest carrier at the airport through 2013. In January 2014, Delta overtook Alaska as the airports No.2 carrier, the top five airlines by passenger count between October 2014 – September 2015 were Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways. Between October 2014 and September 2015,10,947,066 people traveled through OAK, in 2009, OAK had the highest on-time arrival percentage among the 40 busiest North American airports. The city of Oakland looked into the construction of an airport starting in 1925, in 1927 the announcement of the Dole prize for a flight from California to Hawaii provided the incentive to purchase 680 acres in April 1927 for the airport. The 7, 020-foot-long runway was the longest in the world at the time, the airport was dedicated by Charles Lindbergh September 17. Earhart departed from this airport when she made her final, ill-fated voyage, Boeing Air Transport began scheduled flights to Oakland in December 1927. It was joined by Trans World Airlines in 1932, in 1929, Boeing opened the Boeing School of Aeronautics on the field, which expanded rapidly in 1939 as part of the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Thousands of pilots and mechanics were trained before the facility was changed into the United Air Lines training center in 1945, armed Forces temporarily took over Oakland Airport and opened Naval Air Station Oakland. It was transformed into a base for military flights to the Pacific islands. After the war, airlines slowly returned to Oakland, Western Airlines began flights in 1946, and was followed by American Airlines, TWA, United, Transocean Airlines and Pacific Southwest Airlines. The airports first Jet Age airline terminal was designed by John Carl Warnecke & Associates and opened in 1962, part of a $20 million expansion on bay fill that included the 10, 000-foot runway 11/29. The May 1963 OAG showed 15 airline flights arriving in Oakland each day, including nine from San Francisco, in June 1963, TWA flew Oaklands first scheduled jet, by the late 1960s, World Airways had broken ground on the World Airways Maintenance Center at Oakland International Airport. The maintenance hangar could store four Boeing 747s, after the war Oaklands traffic slumped, but airline deregulation prompted several low-fare carriers to begin flights. This increase prompted the airport to build a $16.3 million second terminal, in 1987 an Air France Concorde visited Oakland to provide supersonic two-hour flights to the Pacific halfway to Hawaii and back to Oakland
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Rockridge station
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Rockridge is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located in the Rockridge District of Oakland, California. The station has a platform in the center median of State Route 24 at College Avenue west of the Caldecott Tunnel. Service at this station began on May 21,1973, following the completion of the Berkeley Hills Tunnel and this station is in BART District 3 and is represented by Bob Franklin. List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations BART - Rockridge Station overview
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West Oakland station
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West Oakland is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station serving the West Oakland neighborhood in Oakland, California, Untied States. It has two elevated platforms, and is located near the eastern end of the Transbay Tube. All lines except the Richmond-Fremont line stop at this station and this station was called Oakland West until 1982, it opened in September 1974 with the commencement of service through the Transbay Tube. Since early 2014, parking commuters at this station pay $6 per day on the weekdays, list of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations Media related to West Oakland BART station at Wikimedia Commons BART – West Oakland Station Overview
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Ashby station (BART)
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Ashby Station is a BART station, located beneath and parallel to Adeline Street, extending from Woolsey Street to Ashby Avenue in the southern part of Berkeley, California. It consists of an island platform. The station was planned to be elevated but the City of Berkeley paid the extra cost to have it built underground. Service at this station began on January 29,1973, the station includes park-and-ride facilities with 715 automobile parking spaces in two separate parking lots,24 motorcycle spaces,36 bike lockers, and bike rack spaces. Access mode shares were, 40% pedestrian, 38% automobile, 9% automobile, 8% bicycle, unique in the BART system, the City of Berkeley, rather than BART, controls the air rights on the parking lots. The west parking lot of the hosts a popular flea market on weekends. Between 2008 and 2010, a portion of the east parking lot was redeveloped as the Ed Roberts Campus, the Ed Roberts Campus is a regional center housing disability-related organizations in one large integrated resource center with a scope for the entire Bay Area. The east parking lot and station entrance were closed for construction on August 18,2008, the east parking lot reopened on April 19,2010, and the east entrance was open again before March 30,2013. There is additional public transit in the free West Berkeley Shuttle that connects the flatlands with the BART station, alta Bates Hospital also provides a free shuttle between the station and its Berkeley campus, which is within walking distance. That is next to the Pacific Center for Human Growth an LGBT community center, furthermore, attractions in the immediate vicinity include a Berkeley Bowl Grocery Store and The Berkeley Public Tool Lending Library. Restaurants and small businesses line the Shattuck Avenue corridor and a market is hosted on the south parking lot weekly. The Shotgun Players theater is across the street and La Peña Cultural Center is 2 blocks up the hill, below is data for average weekday entries and exits between the Ashby BART and other BART stations as of January 2017. The transit time and one-way trip cost is based on BARTs fares and schedules booklet, last updated in February 2016, a few notes for interpretation, Ashby BART primarily serves residents. Regular commuters therefore mainly depart from here in the morning and return in the evening, the exceptions are mostly people who work in downtown Berkeley but happen to find Ashby more convenient. The following kinds of stations will have higher counts, nearby stations, stations in downtowns, stations with transfers, end-of-line stations. Some daily commuters dont enter and exit at the same station, for instance, commuters from Ashby who work in downtown San Francisco exit at an earlier station in the morning and enter at a station farther south when returning. This is to get on a crowded train. List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations Black Repertory Theatre Judah L. Magnes Museum La Peña Cultural Center Shotgun Players BART - Ashby Station Overview Ed Roberts Campus
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Bay Fair station
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Bay Fair is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located near the Bayfair Center in San Leandro, California. The station is in BART District 3 and is represented by Bob Franklin, service at this station began on September 11,1972. The elevated island platform became a station after the BART system was extended to Dublin/Pleasanton. List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations BART - Bay Fair Station Overview
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Downtown Berkeley station
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Downtown Berkeley is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located in Berkeley, California, United States, one of three stations in Berkeley along with Ashby and North Berkeley. It is the second-busiest BART station in the East Bay and the overall, with 13,748 exits each weekday, first being 12th St. Oakland City Center. Located at the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Allston Way, Downtown Berkeley station is situated near the center of the City of Berkeley and it is the primary station for those travelling to and from the University of California, Berkeley, which is one block to the east. Because this station is underground, there is poor cell service unless underneath the center of the station, cell boosters have not been rolled out in the Berkeley Subway creating a dead zone from Ashby to north Berkeley. The station was designed by Maher & Martens of San Francisco in collaboration with Parsons Brinckerhoff, Tudor Construction, in the mid-1990s, BART changed the name of the station from simply Berkeley to Downtown Berkeley in an effort to minimize confusion between this station and North Berkeley. The station is often referred to as Berkeley in train announcements. The station has been the site of many BART Alert protests in response to occurrences on the political scene, a station and plaza renovation project began construction on August 29,2016. The project scope includes new lighting, landscaping, drainage, paving, the main rotunda entrance will be replaced by a glass entrance structure similar to those found in downtown Oakland. The $11.2 million project is funded primarily by BART, with funding from the City of Berkeley, Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Work is expected to conclude in winter 2017, a further project to renovate the underground station interior is in the planning stages. Like most underground BART stations, Downtown Berkeley has two levels, a mezzanine containing the faregates and a platform with two tracks. The escalators at the latter are topped by a rotunda that covers passengers entering and leaving the station from inclement weather. There is also a bike parking facility outside the station at street level and is operated by Alameda Bicycle. It used to be placed at the top of a stairway from the mezzanine level to the platform below. The stairs were built so that an additional entrance could be opened if needed in the future, entrance windows featured artwork of the UCB Botanical Garden. Below is data for average weekday entries and exits between the Ashby BART and other BART stations as of January 2017, the transit time and one-way trip cost is based on BARTs fares and schedules booklet, last updated in February 2016, and valid as of January 2017. A few notes for interpretation, Downtown Berkeley serves commuters in both directions, it serves people who commute to downtown Berkeley every day for work or study, most of these commuters come from nearby areas in Oakland, Berkeley, El Cerrito, and Richmond. It also caters to a residential population that works in San Francisco or Oakland
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Dublin/Pleasanton station
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Dublin/Pleasanton is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station on the border of Dublin and Pleasanton. The station is fed by twenty local and regional bus lines from five different providers, the station consists of an island platform located in the center median of Interstate 580. Parking lots for the station are located on both sides of the freeway and it is somewhat unusual in that trains travel down a long, somewhat rural stretch of Interstate 580 between Castro Valley and Dublin to get to the station. It is also notable in having transit service to the city of Modesto, local bus service is provided by WHEELS. Connection to ACEs Pleasanton station is available through WHEELS route 54, service at the station began on May 10,1997. It was originally intended to be called the East Dublin/Pleasanton station, however, the West Dublin/Pleasanton station did not actually open until 2011, and the East designator is not commonly used, station signage and route maps use the shorter name. An adjacent transit-oriented development on the Dublin side of the station finished initial construction in 2006, the development includes housing, retail, and a BART parking garage. Tri-Delta transit previously offered connections to Antioch from this station, however, altamont Corridor Express, a diesel commuter rail service that runs between Stockton and San Jose, has a station in Pleasanton with bus service to both Pleasanton BART stations. There have been proposals for a connection between ACE and BART by extending BART from Pleasanton to nearby Livermore. The Iron Horse Regional Trail connects to both the north and south sides of the station, list of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations Hacienda Business Park, an adjacent transit-oriented business district. Media related to Dublin / Pleasanton BART station at Wikimedia Commons BART. gov, official Dublin/Pleasanton Station website PleasantonCommons. com, Pleasanton Bart Station
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Fremont station (BART)
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Fremont is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station that serves Fremont, California. The station was the terminus of the Richmond-Fremont and Fremont-Daly City lines until March 25,2017 and this station has full service at all times, while the neighboring Warm Springs/South Fremont station will have half the service. Parking is in demand, and lots at most stations are full during peak hours. Service at this station began on September 11,1972, when the Automatic Train Control system had safety problems with its design and operation. On October 2,1972, an ATC failure caused the “Fremont Flyer” to run off the end of the track at the Fremont station. The incident drew national and international attention, followed a month later by release of the Post Report on BART safety by the legislative analyst for the California State Senate. The “Fremont Flyer” train crash led to a redesign of the automatic train control system, the firing of the general manager. Fremont station is a hub for AC Transit and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority buses. Local buses, mainly within Fremont, and routes to the north Bay Fair BART, one All-Nighter route to 14th & Broadway in downtown Oakland with a timed transfer at to from Civic Center/UN Plaza station and to Richmond Station. VTA, has express and commuter buses serving San Jose, Milpitas, VTA will discontinue service at this station, upon the opening of the Milpitas and Berryessa stations. The Stanford Marguerite Shuttles AE-F and East Bay Express lines serve Fremont BART as their terminal station, list of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations BART - Fremont Station Overview The station address on Google Maps Map of overflow parking lot for Fremont BART
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Hayward station (BART)
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Hayward station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station that serves Downtown Hayward of Hayward, California, United States. It is across the street from Hayward City Hall, the station consists of two side platforms and a free five-level parking garage. Service at the station began on September 11,1972, in May 2008, an electrical fire caused service to this station to be temporarily disrupted as well as service to the Union City BART and Fremont stations. The fire started at the maintenance yard near the Hayward station. On October 30,2010, a man in a wheelchair fell onto the tracks and was hit by a train, Hayward BART is served by several local AC Transit routes, including the Transbay Route M, which provides service to San Mateo County via the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. Shuttles going to California State University, East Bay provide service to the station, a Greyhound Lines bus stop is at the station. SamTrans served the station until 1999 and this station is in BART District 3 and is represented by Bob Franklin
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Media related to Berryessa/North San José station at Wikimedia Commons
