I grew up in and around the greater San Francisco Bay Area.What I want to share with you is the irony of BART blunder. Santa Clara county comprises much of what will call 'Silicon Valley'. Bear with me.
The 'Silicon Valley' area is not presently inside the BART service area. Although the SF peninsula is well-populated, either there was less need, or the people did not want it. It took many years to build the system at great expense .It was first envisioned as early as 1946 but not seriously endeavored until the construction of the original system in the 1970s.
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District was formed by the state legislature in 1957, comprising the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo. Because Santa Clara County opted instead to first concentrate on its Expressway System, that county was not included in the original BART District.
In 1959, a bill was passed in the state legislature that provided for the entire cost of construction of the tube to be paid for with surplus toll revenues from the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge. This represented a significant portion of the total cost of the system.[3]
The irony is that the many computer and electronic companies are located in the SF peninsula and their work force does not depend on BART. The computer that caused the 'glitch' may have been made in Silicon Valley.
AMD? Apple? Cisco? Intel? National Semiconductor?
BTW. The media now are going to pick up on anything to do with BART. It will become a scapegoat. Already the BART management are doing goofy things. Did you hear they shut down cell-phone service in one area of the BART system? The phone companies were not informed until later. BART travelers could not phone home. BART's reply was they did not want another protest to be organized.
No, I am not making this up. The local media really into it.
