along the way in three counties building a high speed rail rapid transit system planned for your convenience designed for your comfort and deliberately aimed at giving you a safer faster more economical ride than your automobile fully aware as lewis mumford says that a city exists not for the constant passage of motor cars but for the care and culture man and along the way bart is going a step further than trains and tracks bart is protecting and enhancing the natural beauty of the bay area if for no other reason by giving you the time to enjoy it you will spend less time and money and temper than you do today sitting in the midst of a molasses traffic jam and more time enjoying yourself surrounded by the bay area and natural beauty a natural beauty that bart is not only protecting from the steady erosion of the motor car but adding to as well landscaping along the area lines is not just pleasant to look at it's a delightful pocket playground stretching for three miles through albany  ito the familiar rolling hills of alameda and contra costa county is will still be yours to enjoy bard has drilled through instead of climbing over those wooded hills connecting the two counties and carefully followed the narrow natural corridor on the contra costa side by putting the new high speed trains in the median of the widened and relocated freeway cities will maintain their character to  scarred by a heavy concrete swath of the freeway freeways that carry the extravagance of one car one passenger mostly at a standstill instead bike trains carrying thousands of comfortably seated passengers will glide quietly through the maid to under the ferry building and into the market street subway a subway that's perhaps one of the toughest construction projects in the entire system buried sailing ships and the water table lying only twenty five below street surface make sense francisco tunneling something less than a picnic is huge excavations continue at paul montgomery and civic center for bart three level market street station and father along between a market in fifteenth and mission streets miners work under compressed  needed to keep seepage from flooding the tunnel specially selected in the highly trained men sand hogs spend several hours each day sealed and compressed air lock adjusting to the increased air pressure and at the end of the shift readjusting to life at the street surf so when you climb across market street or ride a bus that's been detoured remember that your surface difficulties are temporary while below ground here and in the other two urban core cities opal and  berkeley nine hundred seventy five sand hogs are tunneling twenty one miles of subway and when it's completed you and the bay area will not only feel better you both look better in the polls street station you look something like this along the way you may stop at a magazine stand by commute tickets from the automatic vending machine enjoy the clean spacious architect design station and then you will board a train carpeted air conditioned settle into an extra wide open rubber seat and when you're traveling on the surface or on the aerial structures you will enjoy the scenery from a full vista window barrels street is one of the subway stations macarthur a major transfer center is located in the median of the new grove shafter freeway here to you and beauty that marks all bark structures each station has been individually designed by prominent bay area architectural firms and each like the  been planned as a distinctive addition to each community's particular character and environment the bay itself lends a particular character to the entire area reaching the shores of all the counties and giving to each  then francisco bay has always been a formidable obstacle to into urban transit won the bay area rapid transit is conquering with the world's longest underwater to fifty eight prefabricated sections are n towed to exact spots on the trend beirut and regularly lowered with precision exactness to their places on the bottom of the ba but if you drive across the bay bridge or work on market street or live in contra costa county wherever you practice your sidewalk superintending you won't see the whole picture an official tour comes closest to revealing just how remarkably far along the way your bart system has progressed build over a local newsman reported his reactions enormous progress in building bart has already been made and anyone wishing to see it as only detour the route the lines would take the building of a pretty way looks simple by comparison and when it is all over the bay area will have not a freeway which disrupts and separates the community but  transit system which needs it together and despite the cassandra's it should prove to be a remarkably handsome piece of work by our design consultant dean john bircher w c said with justifiable pride recently that with the possible exception of stockholm but were proved to be the most beautiful system in the world he could very well be right experts throughout the united states agree with dean bircher and they've been expressing it with a succession of awards awards that range from the united states department of housing and urban development for a total system design excellence to nationwide recognition from engineering and construction is associate and basic bart structures and perhaps the most coveted an award from our local community for the district's landscaping of its right of way through a suburban area beyond awards for excellence of design and technology recognition of bart's extraordinary contribution to worldwide progress in mass transit came from the international union of public transport they are impressed by the effort not only to provide an efficient and reliable estimate of transportation of a very high standard specific contributing to the general harmony and beauty of the area and in this you are obviously successful these are the quality is what's real i think make your system a model for other set us for many years to come and in years to come today's school children will be adult users of the system so they help break ground for san francisco's market street subway star performers  civic celebration complete with brass band flags and dignitaries your san francisco bay area rapid transit system well along the way to delivery of initial service is also along the way protecting and enhancing the beauty of the area where you live work and play building the dream for tomorrow experts say there is only one way to prevent our cities and their surrounding suburbs from being strangled by traffic poisoned by exhaust fumes and forced to devote more of their living and working space to parking lots and that is to provide inexpensive public transportation service that is frequent fast and reliable enough to induce citizens to leave their cars at home when they go to places of work or pleasure mass rapid transit for the san francisco bay area as heavy construction accelerates is fast becoming more than a dream as it moves ahead beyond tracks trains and stations to fulfill lewis cities devoted to the care and culture of m