Rode it today too. Milpitas is my favorite station now. Below it has a traditional "white tile subway station" scheme to it. And on top it has a poor man's version of the SalesForce Park interior! :-)
Wow! This brings back memories! I remember riding BART in the 70's from Fremont (or Union City) to Powell Street. I'd sit in the front car and watch the driver operate it. Riding through the Transbay Tube. I wanted to be a BART driver so bad! Never happened. :( One thing I was impressed about BART was that they did not tolerate graffiti. If one of the cars got tagged, it was pulled out of service to be cleaned. Do they still do that?
We love little stories like that! BART will always take a car out of service if it's been substantially defaced, but sometimes minor graffiti can linger.
good video, got goosebumps there at the end, it finally sunk in that it's actually happened after all these years, there's only so many articles and maps and pics u can look at and news reports etc... but this right here, pov video is the next best thing than actually riding it, feels like you're there, thanks, although I would've went for a shot of downtown at the very end, no matter how faint it is, to put a nice period on it, but hey nothing's perfect, other than that, good vid
Thank you! The camera we were using isn't very good at zoom shots, since it's only capable of digital and not optical zoom, so we couldn't really get a decent shot of Downtown. It's a lovely and surreal sight to behold in person.
@@daystar4909 they are boxed up and actually unbuilt. I started building them back in 70’s but I had no train layout. I was going to build them as display pieces. I’ve been dragging them around with me ever since. I am now getting ready to build a HO layout so they will finally live again!
その素晴らしい加速は日本では見られません。日本の新幹線は最高速度は速いですが、加速は、BARTの方が良いです。 That wonderful acceleration is not seen in Japan. The maximum speed of the Japanese Shinkansen is fast, but acceleration is better with BART.
Good stuff, but let down by passenger information screens that can't spell passenger and digital announcements with the sophistication of Speak'n'Spell!
A suggestion: please stop using double-naming in station names (i.e., those with a "/" in the middle). They are very confusing and hard to remember. I understand where BART is coming from: you are trying to match the name to the geography. But that's actually NOT how it works in train systems around the world. What you do, instead, is _sort-of-match_ the names but keep things _reasonable_ otherwise. So don't feel obliged to list all the cities and communities surrounding a station. Instead, just pick one and stick to it. It doesn't even have to be the largest (city sizes change in time anyway). For example, use: Warm Springs. That's it. Bay Point. That's it. Dublin. That's it. The reason for it is that people actually don't care whether the name matches anything real, what's important is simply a _label_ which exhibits _clarity,_ _constancy_ (don't switch back-and-forth, this is what the drivers do in their announcements, it feels really sloppy - the onboard announcements are a topic onto itself, I won't even discuss it here), and _reasonable ease of remembering._ BART station names are also done incorrectly for other reasons: they reverse the standard worldwide railroad _noun-adjective_ order which results in idiocies like: the station Berkeley is listed under "D" on the posters. Imagine you're a visitor, you've just arrived at the SFO, you are leaving the terminal area and entering the BART platforms. And you want to go to Berkeley. You look at the station list poster and... Berkeley is not there! The reason is that the station is listed with the adjective first which is incorrect: "Downtown Berkeley", so it's under "D". (I'm leaving aside the fact that the word "Downtown" is an American English term and is incomprehensible to foreigners.) The correct station name actually should be: "Berkeley", with no adjective. This is the railroad standard: the main station name is left unadorned _unless_ it's in a city with several _equally important_ train stations, like Paris or Berlin - then something like "Main" is usually added. Obviously, Berkeley does not need it as it has only one stop in the main area of the city (the North station counts as outskirts). If you absolutely MUST add something to "Berkeley" (no idea why anyone would want that, not to mention it forces the annoyance of changing the platform signage), it should use a word everyone can recognize and it should follow the name, e.g. "Berkeley Center". Don't call it "City" because another standard world convention is that the adjective "City" denotes a small, second-banana, auxiliary stop away from the main area. I could go into MUCH more detail on this, and also as I mentioned above, the drivers' announcements onboard are a topic unto itself. There is still more: BART's curious refusal to refer to the lines by numbers. Instead they use _colors_ which is confusing to colorblind people (1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women are colorblind, so it's a very common condition). Wait, there is more: the confusion of platform number naming (another long story), whenever drivers refer to them, this information is 100% useless. The reason is there is no corresponding signage on platforms, and also drivers sometimes refer to "platform" when they mean "track", so it's impossible to follow from the get-go. Basically, BART should hire someone to straighten all this mess out once and for all. Strange thing is, most of those problems didn't exist in the 1980s, station names were correct (for example, the correct form "Oakland West" was used instead of the current incorrect "West Oakland", etc.) my guess is the management _then_ consisted of people with rail experience and today it's probably not the case, it feels more like perhaps an amusement park experience (nothing wrong with that, it's just a bit of a mismatch) or perhaps people straight from MBA classes. Not sure. It's very noticeable, other rail systems in the area don't seem to suffer from most of those problems as much. I could go into full detail about all that but it would take literally 10x more space (probably more).
That robotic Stephen Hawking voice is so unbelievably dated, it needs to seriously be updated. Half the time I cant understand it because its so robotic and doesnt enunciate clearly as well as acoustics of stations muffle the voice more. The use of man and woman for each side of the track needs to go as well. So does "Track 1" "Track 2" - People dont know what track is what, so instead say North and South track, East and West track or just say WEST BAY and SF, EAST BAY and SOUTH BAY directions on the track area so people get it.
Sometimes I watch RUclips on BART. Right now I'm watching BART on RUclips.
Sometimes I watch RUclips on Computer. Right now I'm watching RUclips on Computer.
Me to!
I definitely gotta check this part of the line out when I return to the bay area. Great video!
Thank you! It was a fun ride.
When I get home I have to check this out. Good Job Bart 👍
Rode it today too. Milpitas is my favorite station now. Below it has a traditional "white tile subway station" scheme to it. And on top it has a poor man's version of the SalesForce Park interior! :-)
I’m excited for BART to be extended to Downtown San Jose
Don't get too excited. We had to wait 8 years from breaking ground to opening ceremony in Milpitas.
It won't be for another ten years at least
I heard the projected date it’ll open is 2030 to as late as 2032
Welp…there goes my enthusiasm
Wow! This brings back memories! I remember riding BART in the 70's from Fremont (or Union City) to Powell Street. I'd sit in the front car and watch the driver operate it. Riding through the Transbay Tube. I wanted to be a BART driver so bad! Never happened. :(
One thing I was impressed about BART was that they did not tolerate graffiti. If one of the cars got tagged, it was pulled out of service to be cleaned. Do they still do that?
We love little stories like that! BART will always take a car out of service if it's been substantially defaced, but sometimes minor graffiti can linger.
good video, got goosebumps there at the end, it finally sunk in that it's actually happened after all these years, there's only so many articles and maps and pics u can look at and news reports etc... but this right here, pov video is the next best thing than actually riding it, feels like you're there, thanks, although I would've went for a shot of downtown at the very end, no matter how faint it is, to put a nice period on it, but hey nothing's perfect, other than that, good vid
Thank you! The camera we were using isn't very good at zoom shots, since it's only capable of digital and not optical zoom, so we couldn't really get a decent shot of Downtown. It's a lovely and surreal sight to behold in person.
@@BayAreaTransitNews can you actually see Downtown SJ from Berryessa though?? If so I gotta check it out next time I ride down.
@@frankyu553 Yes, you can. It's only a couple miles away lol
I would think they would put the new trains on the line for opening day.
the new trains were there for the ribbon cutting, and new trains operate alongside legacy trains on all service lines now
I rode BART when it first opened in 1974. I have a HO scale train of BART!
That is awesome! do you have any pics or vids of your BART train set?!
@@daystar4909 they are boxed up and actually unbuilt. I started building them back in 70’s but I had no train layout. I was going to build them as display pieces. I’ve been dragging them around with me ever since. I am now getting ready to build a HO layout so they will finally live again!
@@wmcwings4343 Cool... hey keep me updated bro! 😎
I was on this one! Rode the first one out of SJ and first one back!
Nice! I was in the 4th car on this train.
At last, Santa Clara County has BART!
I was waiting for another BART video to be uploaded
Congrats, BART!
No bums. 👍🏼👍🏼
All the way to San Jose! Waiting for that day
But they just opened the Berryessa station. That is a San Jose station.
Awesome! Thinking about going
Pretty fast speed, I am surprised.
Cuts downs a 45 minute bus ride to 10 mins, from Milpitas to South Fremont. A godsend.
その素晴らしい加速は日本では見られません。日本の新幹線は最高速度は速いですが、加速は、BARTの方が良いです。
That wonderful acceleration is not seen in Japan. The maximum speed of the Japanese Shinkansen is fast, but acceleration is better with BART.
加速度毎秒毎秒3.0マイルですよ、キロに換算すると毎秒毎秒4.8キロですから尋常じゃないです…
@@Alpha_Iru 阪神電鉄のジェットカーもびっくりですね！
These cars are still living?
2:00 Is that the Tesla factory?
Yes. It’s near the Bay Area.
For now. 🙄
yeah, tesla in fremont.
The train model almost looks simular to the train crash from Earthquake soundstage 50 in universal studios hollywood tram studio tour
This train has the same engine and doors as the r179 trains
Thought the recent stations would look more advanced or fancy but they kept the status quo.
12:47 ha old map
It's gonna take awhile to replace all of them.
How long did it take them to build the Milpitas train station
Since 2009 I think
@@carspov that is sad
The VTA light rail part of the station opened in 2004
the BART station began construction in 2012 and completed in 2019 if I'm not mistaken
Damm, nice
that would look greatly awesome if Massachusetts had that system in place
0:08 Pretty sure passengers is spelt with an e in the second a...
Lmao BART done goofed up
The Nose suppression onto Berryessa 10/10.
oh yeah
Hey man, I live in Milpitas. Since when the line from Berryessa to Fremont started operating? I live next to Milpitas Station but got no idea.
June 13, 2020
How do you live in Milpitas and not know that?...smh
@@mayhemjr.803 Leave him alone.
@@daystar4909 why? Its a legitimate question
Can't wait for my Metro System to open Phase 2 of the silver line, now thats gonna be packed
Every Goddamn Rail Car Tagged!
Haulin ass. How fast this thing goes ?
We pulled out the speedometer and it read 60 mph on the extension. BART can reach up to 80 mph, though.
noice
Good stuff, but let down by passenger information screens that can't spell passenger and digital announcements with the sophistication of Speak'n'Spell!
You my friend, is a very funny guy!
that old trainset supposed to be gone by now that is over 50 years old.
How long would it have taken to drive to the first station?.
About 14 minutes, according to Google Maps.
With heavy traffic it is up to 25 mins.
And the bus alt was 45 mins.
I live in San Francisco x
What did the lady say on the intercom?
Koopa Troopa time stamp ?
The ride looks very long and time consuming. But you'll be able to get where going.
15 mins? Compared to what could be 30 mins- 1 hr? Depending on what you take to get there? And where you live?
They’re just tryna get rid of caltrain now ._.
We wish! But the electrification of CalTrain will hopefully make it run reasonably frequently, and make the BART connection suck a bit less.
no there electrifying the caltrain rought and there going to replace the trainset with Stadler Kiss trainset
@@Perich29 ik their electrifying but bart's expansions are basically just caltrain's routes
面白い走行音ですね！(*´ω｀*)
Who else hops bart?
Last time I paid for bart was probably when i was 13. Im 22 now
@@tazcalifornia Takes the wheel!
It just occurred to me that Bay Area is one of the most generic names to give to a place. Kinda like "Hillside" or "Hill Valley".
You say that, like it's a bad thing :-/
Bart simulator
BART is utterly careless about masks and social distancing - nothing but a few signs
And?
A suggestion: please stop using double-naming in station names (i.e., those with a "/" in the middle). They are very confusing and hard to remember. I understand where BART is coming from: you are trying to match the name to the geography. But that's actually NOT how it works in train systems around the world. What you do, instead, is _sort-of-match_ the names but keep things _reasonable_ otherwise. So don't feel obliged to list all the cities and communities surrounding a station. Instead, just pick one and stick to it. It doesn't even have to be the largest (city sizes change in time anyway). For example, use: Warm Springs. That's it. Bay Point. That's it. Dublin. That's it. The reason for it is that people actually don't care whether the name matches anything real, what's important is simply a _label_ which exhibits _clarity,_ _constancy_ (don't switch back-and-forth, this is what the drivers do in their announcements, it feels really sloppy - the onboard announcements are a topic onto itself, I won't even discuss it here), and _reasonable ease of remembering._ BART station names are also done incorrectly for other reasons: they reverse the standard worldwide railroad _noun-adjective_ order which results in idiocies like: the station Berkeley is listed under "D" on the posters. Imagine you're a visitor, you've just arrived at the SFO, you are leaving the terminal area and entering the BART platforms. And you want to go to Berkeley. You look at the station list poster and... Berkeley is not there! The reason is that the station is listed with the adjective first which is incorrect: "Downtown Berkeley", so it's under "D". (I'm leaving aside the fact that the word "Downtown" is an American English term and is incomprehensible to foreigners.) The correct station name actually should be: "Berkeley", with no adjective. This is the railroad standard: the main station name is left unadorned _unless_ it's in a city with several _equally important_ train stations, like Paris or Berlin - then something like "Main" is usually added. Obviously, Berkeley does not need it as it has only one stop in the main area of the city (the North station counts as outskirts). If you absolutely MUST add something to "Berkeley" (no idea why anyone would want that, not to mention it forces the annoyance of changing the platform signage), it should use a word everyone can recognize and it should follow the name, e.g. "Berkeley Center". Don't call it "City" because another standard world convention is that the adjective "City" denotes a small, second-banana, auxiliary stop away from the main area. I could go into MUCH more detail on this, and also as I mentioned above, the drivers' announcements onboard are a topic unto itself. There is still more: BART's curious refusal to refer to the lines by numbers. Instead they use _colors_ which is confusing to colorblind people (1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women are colorblind, so it's a very common condition). Wait, there is more: the confusion of platform number naming (another long story), whenever drivers refer to them, this information is 100% useless. The reason is there is no corresponding signage on platforms, and also drivers sometimes refer to "platform" when they mean "track", so it's impossible to follow from the get-go. Basically, BART should hire someone to straighten all this mess out once and for all. Strange thing is, most of those problems didn't exist in the 1980s, station names were correct (for example, the correct form "Oakland West" was used instead of the current incorrect "West Oakland", etc.) my guess is the management _then_ consisted of people with rail experience and today it's probably not the case, it feels more like perhaps an amusement park experience (nothing wrong with that, it's just a bit of a mismatch) or perhaps people straight from MBA classes. Not sure. It's very noticeable, other rail systems in the area don't seem to suffer from most of those problems as much. I could go into full detail about all that but it would take literally 10x more space (probably more).
thanks for typing in one huge paragraph.
That robotic Stephen Hawking voice is so unbelievably dated, it needs to seriously be updated. Half the time I cant understand it because its so robotic and doesnt enunciate clearly as well as acoustics of stations muffle the voice more. The use of man and woman for each side of the track needs to go as well. So does "Track 1" "Track 2" - People dont know what track is what, so instead say North and South track, East and West track or just say WEST BAY and SF, EAST BAY and SOUTH BAY directions on the track area so people get it.
Fuck that
Keep Stephen Hawking's voice
B.A.R.T= Bring Ammo Ride Train
THAT sounds like people in Chicago who talk about how dangerous CTA trains are, then you find they have never ridden them :)
I've never seen so much graffiti ever.
You blind or just never go outside?
@@iZipTiedMyPenisToABrick How would I watch this video if I was blind?
@@whackamolechamp you just answered my question
@@iZipTiedMyPenisToABrick I watched the video in braille.
ewwwwwwwwwwww
I don't see bums so what's the ew about