San Francisco's Market Street Tunnel

    As I've become increasingly acclimated to the New York City Subway's abandoned factory aesthetic of bare I-beams and rotting tilework I've almost forgotten how a rapid transit agency can actually invest in their appearance.

    Imagine my surprise when I boarded a Bay Area Rapid Transit train at sparkling SFO. I used the BART system extensively in my youth but, like everybody else in the Bay Area, I never had anything to offer but [mostly unwarranted] complaints. While the suburban stations are generally nothing more than long slabs of concrete, the urban stations, particularly under Market Street in San Francisco and Broadway in Oakland, have a distinctly space age feel to them, so much so that a few scenes from THX 1138 were filmed in them while still under construction.

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[Andy Freed]

Wow - I hope you were wearing polyester. Otherwise you'd stick out like Fred Flintstone. The future is so comfortable.