San Francisco’s BART rail transit system is an integral part of the Bay Area’s transportation infrastructure. But BART has recently experienced an overall ridership decrease and faced challenges maintaining reliability while juggling key expansion plans.

To explore BART’s past, present and future, KABC7- television is running a weeklong series on the system. For the segment on the history of BART, they interviewed me and former State Senator Quentin Kopp. We described some of the early challenges with getting the system built, as well as the opportunities to improve development around the stations and build a second crossing between Oakland and San Francisco.

Watch the video above and read more here. I’ll have more to post soon on this history — stay tuned!