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mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm, mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm. Yeah, this is the payoff of the astronomical indebtedness that san Francisco Alameda and Contra Costa counties have been willing to accept voluntarily tomorrow the Bart trains roll on a paying basis. The first leg of

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the huge rapid transit system will be opened up between Fremont and Macarthur station, with public transportation experts watching carefully from all over the world. This is what may be the answer to the problem of metropolitan areas being swamped by private autos. The coming months and years

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will provide the answer as to whether Bart actually will get people out of their cars onto public transportation and the last minute preparations are going on around the clock at the Bart Haywood shops. Yeah, mm hmm. Like that old pop song said 15 years is a

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long, long time. But the dream of 1957 now is the reality of 1972. And it's just the beginning. The real story of Bart starts tomorrow with the birth of the first rapid transit system in the United States since 1907 and Arnold for eyewitness news at the

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Hayward Bart shops. Well Stokes there gonna be any problems tomorrow. Sure, we're gonna have lots of problems but we have a lot of people who will be out ready to solve those problems and we hope that we can keep the number that the public is aware

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of down to a very absolute minimum, do you expect anything serious? No, we don't expect anything serious. But when you have a lot of people around, when you're running a new system like this, there are problems and there's no way to avoid them. And as I

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say, we're just gonna attempt to minimize the kind that the, that the public would be aware of how many trains will be rolling. Eight trains. Uh Six of those will be two car trains and two will be three car trains and we'll have enough equipment and

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enough trains on the track to handle our commute loads again. The thing that we're concerned about is the the people who want to ride on first day and we just hope that they don't mob the stations and two great numbers. You've been pacing around these shops

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today, like a father in the maternity ward of a hospital. Is that about how you feel? It's been a long gestation period.