Crossing San Francisco Bay: A Bridge Is Born

[flo96138]

Goodly description!

[gandhi1470]

i like the song on 0:00.

[mhm2472]

The bridge railway was removed because fewer and fewer people were using it -- too many people driving. The Key System's last day was April 20, 1958. The tracks were removed a couple of years later.

i miss the old days, but not the head-on collisions from bi-directional traffic on both decks. The Key System was great! Too bad it is gone...

[adeinyorkuk]

going to looking around the new one next week!

[bjroberts65]

Would have been much better without the stupid commentary.

[nwprrnut1]

One way decks on the Bay Bridge took effect in 1963; the Key System interurban train service was discontinued 4/20/58. During the intermittent 5 years autos could use either deck.

[joshtj44]

That's amazing. I didn't know the lower level was reserved for trains...I'll think about that the next time I'm headed home.

[chunkybutt420]

is this a new season of mystery theater 3000

[MrHeavydose]

I didn't know there was a rail way on the bottom bridge.. Why did they get rid of it?

[cjk002]

It ran until the late 1950's, and it was called the Key system. It was replaced by bus lines, and eventually BART in the 60's.

This was the period in history where everyone was convinced that fossil fuels were inexhaustible, and car and energy companies convinced most major cities in America to replace their rail lines with buses and to build freeways instead of more mass transit.

[sideslide23]

@MrHeavydose the City Bus replaced electrical Trolly in most of the urban town, the Bart Replace the Key trolly so they took out the rail to make 5 lane road on bridge istead of 3 because the two way traffic on the uperdeck with 3 lane is just too narrow for today car so they maid them into 5 lanes on bothdeck

[sideslide23]

@MrHeavydose because with cars and truck with just one deck there were just three lane two way traffic, but when they came out with a B.A.R.T and a trans bay tunnel which goes under the bay, they took out the key system and tracks and made them 5 lane on both deck to speed the traffic, the key wasn't needed since they got the Bart train going, and City buses replaced most of the trolleys, but the calbe car stayed, they took out the track and made them into bus station at the transbay terminal.

[kaitoukidkun]

@MrHeavydose make room for more cars

[adrianroam95]

@MrHeavydose so Eastbound traffic could use the deck

[freesk8]

This bridge was a great human achievement designed by intelligent people and brave builders.

The commentators made light of this.

I think they are luddites and they hate humans and they ought to go live in caves.

[zoticus1]

look at that ugly mark that man has made upon the beautiful mountain bay area

[sideslide23]

that was cool they had a Key Train that run on the bay bridge but the Bart Replace it.

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Film has the ability to show history and provide a context for understanding in a way that no other medium can equal. Documentaries such as this are necessarily myopic and so doesn't stand on their own, but are an invaluable adjunct.

[Daritto7117]

that is some awesome footage! Thanks for sharing ForaTV!

[TheKoolT]

nice

[LeGioNoFZioN]

lame

[chopin65]

I don't get it either.

[LeGioNoFZioN]

nostalgia maybe