BART Opens Tomorrow

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Film Date
9/10/72
Film Reference Number
KPIX 109579
Description
KPIX Eyewitness News report from September 10th 1972 by Ed Arnow at the BART Hayward workshops where the last finishing touches are being made to BART trains which will start running services tomorrow in the Bay Area. Includes views of the trains being inspected and cleaned and an interview with BART's General Manager B.R. Stokes. As Arnow puts it: "The real story of BART starts tomorrow with the birth of the first rapid transit system in the United States since 1907."
Format
16mm newsfilm