- Only five different routes
- Bart travels 104 miles
- Travel services began in 1972
- The average amount of riders in one week is 327,629
- It is the fifth busiest rail system in the U.S. and is ranked 73rd in the world
- One of the quietest trains in the world
- Bart can travel a maximum speed of 80 mph
- There was a record of riders broken in one day, when the Bay Bridge was closed due to construction. 442,000 riders took bart that day (October 29, 2009). The record was broken a little over a year later when the Giants won the world series (November 3, 2010). Setting the record at 552,000 riders in one day.
- In 1979 there was a bart fire, in which one firefighter was killed
- New bart cars are in the making, three door cars
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