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Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 09:30:44 No.1696681 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1696700 >>1696712 >>1696822 >>1697384 >>1698228 >>1698600

What went wrong? And why didn't they make it standard gauge?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 10:56:01 No.1696695 Report

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I don't know. What do you think, OP?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 11:14:15 No.1696700 Report

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>>1696681
The gays

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 11:56:35 No.1696712 Report

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>>1696681
BART was conceived and constructed during the nadir of passenger trains and the peak of the freeway building era. I think those contributed greatly to its design. Its planners and backers were trying to try new ideas to win commuters back. When politicians and planners think like that strange things can happen, like aerospace manufacturers designing rolling stock and standard gauge is cast aside for a meme gauge. But at the time its backers were in a hail mary situation against the highway, so taking unorthodox approaches was viable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 12:04:42 No.1696716 Report

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Everything american is doomed to fail

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Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 12:14:51 No.1696720 Report

Quoted By: >>1696733 >>1696737 >>1696888 >>1699363

is this plywood

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 12:23:20 No.1696722 Report

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>>1696716
Even the US?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 13:02:43 No.1696733 Report

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>>1696720
Idk but a lot of transit systems had faux wood veneers installed on interior surfaces at that time

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Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 13:06:36 No.1696736 Report

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>>1696733
i'm aware op's image appears to be a demonstration or mockup. i just like the mental picture of the doors being made of untreated plywood, closing behind people and being secured with a Mr Bean padlock, etc. lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 13:06:39 No.1696737 Report

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>>1696720
Idk but it looks like a mock-up vehicle to showcase to the public. A lot of transit systems had faux wood veneers installed on interior surfaces at that time

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 15:18:48 No.1696765 Report

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Bart get out im piss

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 19:19:17 No.1696822 Report

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>>1696681
>What went wrong?
It was built in united sharts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 19:50:17 No.1696832 Report

Quoted By: >>1696889

The new trains failed safety inspections, so the planned roll-out will be delayed.
Kek.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 22:00:41 No.1696888 Report

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>>1696720
The older trainsets used to have fake wood grain on some of the interior.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Aug 2021 22:01:54 No.1696889 Report

Quoted By: >>1697345

>>1696832
There are already a bunch in service and they didn't pull them out of service. A subset of the ones yet to be delivered had a manufacturing issue.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Aug 2021 04:39:41 No.1697345 Report

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>>1696889
yeah the new ones are pretty decent. i remember summers on those old ones sometimes they wouldnt have fuckin air conditioning holy shit that was bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Aug 2021 07:06:31 No.1697384 Report

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>>1696681
Did anything go wrong? California is supposed to fund public transport almost as much as the east coast...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Aug 2021 16:54:02 No.1698228 Report

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>>1696681
>And why didn't they make it standard gauge?

The Bay Area has always had an incessant desire to reinvent things that already work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Aug 2021 16:59:50 No.1698235 Report

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>>1696722
Yes, inshallah

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 15:23:55 No.1698600 Report

Quoted By: >>1698607 >>1698624

>>1696681
Honestly why make it standard gauge? If you're going to make a new metro system, you may as well make it in a wider (superior) gauge to get more spacious trains.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 15:38:18 No.1698607 Report

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>>1698600
i mean yeah you might be able to run somewhat wider trains by choosing a broader-than-standard gauge for your hypothetical metro system, but when the price of having those wider trains is nonstandard stock and infrastructure, and thus being tied to a single manufacturer for parts and maintenance training, it's not value for money.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 16:21:55 No.1698624 Report

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>>1698600
>superior
Oh (You).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 19:21:13 No.1698680 Report

Quoted By: >>1698684

BART was amazing when it was built and rightfully a model of what the transit systems of the future should be. It's downfall can be traced back to one thing and that's it being county-funded rather than state funded. WMATA used the exact same setup and system as BART but had it state funded so expansions couldn't get blocked and I think we can all agree WMATA is a model that other cities should look up to. Other problem with BART is that zoning never caught up with it like it did with WMATA but I'm inclined to believe that it BART was built out as intended the zoning would follow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Aug 2021 20:01:00 No.1698684 Report

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>>1698680
>I’m sure California would figure out their zoning if it meant working trains

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Aug 2021 01:37:57 No.1698793 Report

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Built by pajeets in pajeet gauge

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Aug 2021 02:01:08 No.1698797 Report

Quoted By: >>1698802

>What went wrong?

Bay Area zoning fucked up a lot of things.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Aug 2021 02:17:44 No.1698802 Report

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>>1698797
Who's your favorite development company?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Aug 2021 05:27:41 No.1699363 Report

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>>1696720
it was the 70s faux wood was on everything

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