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Health & Fitness

100,000 RIDE BART IN FIRST 5 DAYS

The Bay Area Rapid Transit District had a total passenger count of more than 100,000 for the opening segment of the system from Fremont to North Oakland.  BART General Manager B. R. Stokes praised the District staff and especially the operating personnel who run the trains, man the stations, and maintain the transit cars at the Hayward Shop.  They opened Monday with 18 cars in service and were able to put as many as 22 cars in service to handle combined loads of commuters and excursion riders during the week.  They started with eight two-and three-car trains in service and went to nine and 10 trains which generatlly did well all week.  What trains they did take off the line during the week were rapidly replaced by good team work between BART Central Train Control and maintenance crews.  The large numbers of families, students and adults who made round trips on the system comprised the bulk of the week's ridership.

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