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True story. BART the SF Bay Area subway, that’s been more or less a disaster since it started running in the early 70s was designed as a futuristic system run by computers (those lovely IBM mainframes of the late 60s!), and therein lay the problem. Critics accused the designers of neglecting the basic rules of designing a railway, such as providing sidetracks for disabled trains, and other flaws that have plagued this system for decades and cannot be easily corrected.

My dad moved our family from the East Bay (Berserkely area) to the South Bay because of BART. He was riding it in the early days, and got tired of all the problems, so we just moved to Silicon Valley (where his job was).

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My dad moved our family from the East Bay (Berserkely area) to the South Bay because of BART. He was riding it in the early days, and got tired of all the problems, so we just moved to Silicon Valley (where his job was).

My dad retired from Ma Bell because of the hell he had to go through with the BART system every day. He lives in San Jose, and after fifteen years of commuting to San Fran on that thing, he'd finally had enough.