This is what BART should’ve been. This is an updated image based on the original 1956 BART layout plan.
Do you realize how different the Bay would’ve been if this had happened? If we spent the past 30-40 years interconnected between our neighborhoods, we’d have experienced a far more New York-ish unity. I’d also argue that if we had a fully integrated public transportation system, the Bay would have become far more populated due to access and convenience. Culture and society is both influenced and dictated by things like civil engineering, architecture, and transportation infrastructure. Honestly, I could write a sociological analysis on this shit, but I won’t…or maybe I will…one day.
What I don’t know about is public policy—how can we, the people, lobby to get something like this going again? I’d like to see a fully integrated metro system in the Bay before I die.
frontline/pbs and the washington post have done an amazing job with this new investigative project called top secret america. read below, and also visit these two micro sites: washington post + frontline
FRONTLINE goes inside The Washington Post’s major two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top secret world the U.S. government has created in response to 9/11. Coming fall 2010 to PBS.
A major examination by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin is the subject of an upcoming FRONTLINE documentary produced by veteran producer Michael Kirk. The Post’s two-year investigation looks at the top secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—a world that has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that few know how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere.
the headline is funny at first glance, but look deeper and you’ll see that the effects of white/western imperialism linger on. it’s 2010, and “white” still symbolizes wealth, power, and status.
