Eric Fischer’s scanner has captured five SF-Marin transit options in 1970 neon excitement, including:
- BART under the Golden Gate Bridge and down Geary
- a BART tube from Sausalito to Columbus Ave with one Marin routing option through San Rafael, the other through San Anseimo. (That would have been one looong tunnel.)
- an exclusive busway over the GGB
- a BART bridge from Richmond to San Rafael, and a busway over the GGB
(The colors are real, though I did adjust the black levels for added blogging excitement.)
Here’s a blowup of the numbers. Awesome. Can you imagine what a blog from the 70s would look like?
Sadly there are not enough vibrant colors visible to the human eye to get past five. 6 is into the ultraviolet and 7 starts emitting x-rays.
Through exhaustive Internet research, I have uncovered a video representing the BART plans described above:
All I can say is if Pointer Sisters had gotten behind the 70s BART expansion we’d be riding it to Santa Cruz today, never mind Marin and the South Bay.
January 18, 2010 at 6:29 pm |
Another “World of Tomorrow” that we’ll never see. :-(
January 18, 2010 at 11:41 pm |
You laugh about blowing up the numbers, but in the original document they devote an *entire page* before each map to its number, blown up to the full height of the page!
January 19, 2010 at 12:02 pm |
That Pointer Sisters video is one of my favorite memories from childhood.
January 19, 2010 at 12:56 pm |
[...] (Bonus points if you can match the colors used in the 1970 BART expansion plan map.) [...]
January 22, 2010 at 4:02 pm |
[...] Justice. Johnny linked to the ever-awesome Eric Fischer’s discovery of some uber-futuristic BART maps from the past. They concern that mythical beast known in many parts as BART in Marin. Check out the images now [...]