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The programme examines the impact of BART on life in the San Francisco Bay area.
The programme examines the impact of BART on life in the San Francisco Bay area.
| Module code and title: | TD342, Systems performance: human factors and systems failures |
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| Item code: | TD342; 08 |
| First transmission date: | 06-06-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:30 |
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| Producer: | Andrew Millington |
| Contributors: | Ronald John Beishon; Alan Bingham; Bill Hine; John Kirkwood; Gene Rhodes; Wolf Homburger; Serena Chen; Ted Burton; Roy Krausen; Henry Bain |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Bay area; Chinese community; Complications; Land development; San Francisco; Technology of the system; Urban fabric |
| Footage description: | Aerial shots of San Francisco and surrounding area. John Beishon introduces the programme. Shots of buses and of a BART station. Alan Bingham (A.C. Transit Bus Company), speaking at the San Leandro BART station, explains the efforts made by his company to develop an integrated service with BART. He points to the work done at San Leandro station to encourage travellers to come to the station by bus rather than by car. Bill Hine (BART Planning Director) points out some of the difficulties in developing an integrated BART/Bus transportation system for the Bay area. John Beishon and Gene Rhodes (Mayor of Fremont) discuss some of the effects which the BART system has had on the Fremont community (Fremont is the last stop on one of the BART lines). Parking problems, property values and the introduction of a new bus system for the town are covered. Film shots of Fremont station while they talk. John Beishon and John Kirkwood (BART director) discuss the effect of BART on land values in the Bay area. Film shots of Oakland, Berkeley and aerial shots of BART trains accompany the discussion. John Beishon, with Wolf Homburger and Bill Hine, looks briefly at the influence of BART on the spread of development in the Bay area. Beishon briefly points out some examples of social impact of BART on the community, particularly the 'Mobile College' set up and administered by Chabot College. Shots of BART trains and of a 'Mobile College' tutor at work at a BART station. John Beishon introduces Serena Chen, a member of the Bay Area Chinese community. She goes on to explain why BART has had very little impact on the Chinese community where most people prefer the established systems of transportation even where these are more expensive and less convenient. Shots of Oakland and San Francisco Chinatowns, at intervals, while she talks. Beishon introduces Ted Burton (member of the Rockridge Community Association) who goes on to discuss the development which was likely in Rockridge as a result of BART. He explains how the residents organised to put a stop to this development. Roy Krausen (a resident) joins in to point out the effects in property values of the residents' actions. Film shots of Rockridge residential areas throughout the discussion. Over film shots of an A.C. Transit Dial-a-Ride bus at work, John Beishon and Alan Bingham discuss the dial-a-bus concept in the Bay Area. Finally, John Beishon and Henry Bain (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) discuss the need for subsidies to public transport systems such as BART. Shots of BART trains and station. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72199 |
| Production number: | 00525_5243 |
| Videofinder number: | 762 |
| Available to public: | no |
