Sunday night could be the last chance for Bay Area rail riders to take part in a little transportation history.
The Regional Transit Authority announced on Saturday evening that the last scheduled train to Richmond on the so-called Red Line will depart Millbrae at 7:39 p.m.
The details for the last scheduled Legacy Train have been finalized!!!!
It will be the Red Line train to Richmond that leaves Millbrae at 7:39pm on Sunday.
A formal retirement operation ceremony will be held in 2024, but this train will be the last legacy train as a basic timetable. https://t.co/hZL3m2aVBt pic.twitter.com/RAKqgvkJ0z
— Bart (@SFBART) September 10, 2023
“We have got the details of the last scheduled Legacy Train!!!!” the official posted on the social network formerly known as Twitter.
BART added that although a formal retirement service ceremony will take place in 2024, it will be the last legacy train to operate on its regular schedule.
The transit agency previously announced that about 650 legacy cars would make their final run this weekend. According to BART, these vehicles consist of vehicles from the 1990s all the way back to the dawn of the system in the 1970s. website.
“BART’s legacy vehicles have tremendous emotional value to passengers in the San Francisco Bay Area,” the agency wrote, offering the public an opportunity to submit proposals for giving these vehicles a second life. explained.
Last month, BART announced plans to move to shorter six- and eight-car trains to reduce the number of empty trains. BART users have been unabashedly voicing their impressions of the system in recent weeks, and they’ve been busy in the run-up to this week’s Dreamforce conference, as well as planned changes to the baseline schedule. Raising my voice on the short train ride. To increase passenger safety and train frequency.
BART spokesperson Alicia Trost said, “Our new vehicles are cleaner, require less maintenance, are equipped with high-quality surveillance cameras, and are better equipped with automated next-stop indication and announcements. We provide a customer experience.” statement last month. She claimed that rider feedback on BART’s new Fleet of the Future vehicle has been “very positive.”
BART has also added a watchtower outside the 24th Street Mission Station and revealed readiness for a new version of the system’s 700 fare gates to debut in summer 2025, with the first to be installed at West Oakland Station by December. are scheduled to be installed.
Most of the old cars will be recycled by an organization in Oakland called Schnitzer Steel. According to BART, up to 22 tonnes of metal can be produced from a single vehicle, including about 15 tonnes of steel, about six tonnes of aluminum and about one tonne of copper.
Some of the carbon steel subway cars of other transit systems have been submerged in the sea for use as part of artificial reefs, but the aluminum composition of BART cars makes that impossible.