The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 5

12, 1972 ti fcJff.Examtnrr-Pagt 5- 1st Day Smash Hit With Happy BART Riders lurching, no strain. The train ran so smoothly through these maneuvers, it was as if they were planned. Typical Comment The day was not without its tribulations, yet easily the most typical sort of comment was heard to corne from the lips of Sheldon Greenberg, 22, who lives, in Oakland and works in San Leandro, with both home and job in easy walking distance of BART stations. "It's fantastic," said Greenberg. "It's amazingly smooth.

I'm going to ride it every day, starting It was on the first train to pull out of Lake Merritt Station, headed south toward Fremont. About 25 minutes along, between the Hayward and South Hayward Stations, we slowed down, picked up speed, slowed, halted, started, slowed to another half. In all there were maybe a dozen on-again, off-agains. The voice of the driver came on the public address system to say something about "losing the speed code." Whatever that means, it got cured before we reached South Hayward. And it was no big deal, no the historic occasion, and es-pecially Orland Hancock, 89, who was pointing his new movie camera at almost everything that zipped by the window.

Ung Trip Hancock, a retired optometrist, had Journeyed here for BART's opening day from his Portland, home. "It's wonderful," fie enthused. "It's so nice and smooth. It's just a terrific ride!" It is worth noting that approximately 92 percent of yesterday's BART riders answered in the same lan ture make them something special. They have a good feeling." Train Stops Bear is boosting for the same kind of system in San Diego and eventually to link San Diego with Los Angeles.

"It would be a lot quicker," he noted, "than driving to the airport and catching a jet, and then having to take a cab." The only hitch in service this reporter was personally subjected to happened an hour and a half before the paying customers were allowed on the trains. guage. Another 5 percent put it this way: "It's swell!" While the remaining 3 percent said: "It's tops!" In this latter category was San Diego County Superintendent F. James Bear, who had, like Hancock, come to the area to commemorate the occasion. Top System "I've been on a lot of subways and transit systems in this country and others," Bear said, "and this one is tops.

The ride is so smooth and quiet and quick. And the design of the stations the color schemes and architec son Is the ultra-smooth ride at all speeds It feels more like flying' than the usual swing-and-sway subway ride plus the comparative silence. Kvcn at top cruising speeds it is possible to hold a 1 quiet conversation with only the smallest adjustment in vocal volume. Without disclosing make or model, let it be noted that when the author's automobile is cruising at 76 mph, shouting becomes a conversational must. All segments of society were numbered among BART's opening day riders, and one of these was a pretty little redhead, snuggled in the denimed crook of her boyfriend's arm, who was especially admiring of the differing station decors.

When Stoned "If you gel too stoned to read the station signs," said she, as the train whisked from the red-brick Oakland Civic Center station to the blue-brick 19th Street Oakland station, "all you have to do is remember what color to look for!" There was hardly anybody who didn't have some sort of a camera along to capture ff The Original "Department Store Decorator Style" Uy John liin ks nAUT's test of fire will come later when teal commuters have to get to work ON TIME, without the hour and a half wait at the station. But yesterday's shakedown day of sightseeing excursions was a smash hit with its 15,000 or so easy riders. No matter what the inconvenience, those who waited and waited and waited at the stations bore up under it with good grace and a sense of history. "Day One," read the lapel badge many wore, "I Was There September 11, 1972." After all, when you're making history, who minds a little standing around? Behind Schedule Because so many people wanted to ride, the trains were running way behind schedule at mid-afternoon. When intermittent station announcements were broadcast urging patience, there were few whimpers.

This was amazing to Claudia Dillard, a young Oak-land mother who recently returned from New York City. "In New York," she chuckled, "there'd have been a full-fledged riot by now." She had waited over an hour at Oakland City Center station for a three-minute ride to Lake Merritt station, just across the street from Laney College, where she was to register for some classes. "But I can tell you," continued Mrs. Dillard, "that these stations are a lot nicer and brighter and safer than vi pit I Cut Velvet Throw Pillow I Vs NiNS plush, cut velvet pillows, filled Vv AT Tv 11 with plump kapok 15" I 1 fT 6 Decorator Colors! Handblown Lidded Glass Jars table your contents hi (Joriout glees jar globei c4 brilliant colon, based for balance and topped with matching, sculptured flaw Ws select from three tteir- Full-Sizc Sport Helmet tfturdy, molded plastic, lined with expanded polystyrene tilt-up or take-oil shield, car (laps straps (sizes ttepptnf sues lV 9Vi'rtnd 10V tail) yellow, ruby red, amber, true-blue, tangerine or bottle green corner three as canisters, fill tome with sweet-smelling on shelf to capture some tunshine! 1.99 3.99 uSashSgle vlPW From Japan feggggg Mjiyj China 'wgiii Rosewood Chew Table lasting, luxurious, hand-rubbed rosewocd with a touch of the orient (15" square) 14" low. finished in rosewood or ebony.

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approved 17.99 in New York." Deeply ingrained in the American psyche is the desire to be "first," and this perhaps explains why so many people showed up so early in the morning for a ride that was to open to the public at noon. This reporter chatted with no less than five separate people at the heads of lines at different stations, all of whom had arrived at 8 a.m. yesterday morning, e-cause I want to be first." Celebrity Ride This was, of course, impossible. For assorted bigwigs and celebrities and dignitaries whooshed off on the first official BART rides at 10 a.m., two hours before the man in the street could get a crack at it. Brian Severson, 15, attempted to explain.

"I heard so much about it," said Brian, Number One in the South Hayward line. "I want to see how fast it will go." The answer to this is that some trains sometimes went as fast as 80, though for most, top cruising speed was 77 mph, It's fairly remarkable how fast these trains attain that speed without ever SEEMING to take off like a dragster. Doubtless part of the rea- BART-A Treat to The Eye The present stretch of track is scenically fascinating, affording riders an unobstructed up-close aerial view of the East Bay's industrial underbelly. This may sound like faint praise but isn't intended that way. For instance, heading north from Fremont, the eye is treated to A car -crunching yard, where old autos are compressed into refrigerator-sized chunks of solid steel, then stacked up like so many bales of hay.

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