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Progress

posted by Zed on April 16 2003 23:58

Fun fact. Today, it takes 22 minutes to get from downtown Berkeley to San Francisco on BART under the best of circumstances.

100 years ago, you could make that trip by mass transit in 36 minutes.

The Key System’s interurban mainline reached the downtown Berkeley station on Shattuck Avenue in 1903. Offering 36 minute service to San Francisco via the Emeryville ferry, trains initially ran once an hour. The route was so popular that service was soon increased to once every 20 minutes.

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