BART in 1984. This was shot forty years ago when BART was just twelve years old and long before people were smoking weed, sleeping, and committing crimes there on a semiregular basis. Harre Demoro was a veteran Bay Area journalist and author of 11 books on urban transportation, ferryboats, and railroad history. He was an Oakland native and covered urban transportation for the San Francisco Chronicle. He wrote extensively for magazines and was technical editor of Mass Transit magazine from 1976 t

BART has carried riders for 50 years. It also changed how the Bay Area lives