ROTHSCHILD FAMILY BUILT B.A.R.T. - WHAT!!??

PLAQUE STATES:
SF BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT 24th STREET MISSION STATION 1972
PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF-TUDOR-BECHTEL
TUDOR ENGINEERING Co.
HERTZKA & KNOWLES
ROTHSCHILD & RAFFIN P & Z

NOTE:
REFERENCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Area_Rapid_Transit
-Some of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System's current coverage area was once served by the electrified streetcar and suburban train system called the Key System. This early twentieth century system once had regular trans-bay traffic across the lower deck of the Bay Bridge. By the mid-1950s that entire system had been dismantled in favor of highway travel using automobiles and buses - given the explosive growth of expressway construction. A new rapid-transit system was proposed to take the place of the Key System during the late 1940s, and formal planning for it began in the 1950s.[2] Some funding was secured for the BART system in 1959,[3] and construction began a few years later. The first passenger rail service commenced on a few stretches of track in September 1972.[4] The new BART system was hailed by some authorities as a major step forwards in subway technology.[5]
However, questions arose concerning the safety of the BART system[6] and the huge expenditures necessary for the construction of the BART network.[7] Praise for the new transportation system was not unanimous at first.

REFERENCE:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion_Smith
-Francis Marion Smith (February 2, 1846 -- August 27, 1931) (once known nationally and internationally as "Borax Smith" and "The Borax King"[1]) was an American business magnate and civic builder in Oakland, California. Smith Mountain in Death Valley is named after him.[2]

REFERENCE:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_System
The Key System (or Key Route) was a privately owned company which provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda[1], Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Richmond, Albany and El Cerrito in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area from 1903 until 1960, when the system was sold to a newly formed public agency, AC Transit.
-The Key System consisted of local streetcar and bus lines operating solely in the East Bay, and a network of commuter rail and bus lines connecting cities and neighborhoods in the East Bay to San Francisco by way of a ferry pier extending out into San Francisco Bay, and later, via the lower deck of the Bay Bridge. At its height during the 1940s, the Key System had over 66 miles (106 km) of track that connected the communities of Richmond, Albany, Berkeley, Oakland, and San Leandro with each other and to San Francisco. The local streetcars were discontinued in 1948 and the commuter trains to San Francisco were discontinued in 1958. The Key System's original territory is today served by BART and AC Transit bus service.

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Tags:

• ROTHSCHILD FAMILY
• BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT
• BART
• SAN FRANCISCO
• KEY SYSTEM
• FRANCIS MARION SMITH

[BOZ11]

rothschilds funded the london underground (subway) too

[shailendersain]

tx 4the upload!