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Two men slashed each other as an early-morning clash turned vicious on the subway platform at Grand Central Tuesday, the latest in a rash of violence in and near the trains, police said.
San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region surrounding the San Francisco Bay estuaries in Northern California. According to the 2010 United States Census, the region has over 7.1 million inhabitants and approximately 6,900 square miles (18,000 km 2) of land. [1]
Bay Wheels (launched as Bay Area Bike Share) is a regional public bicycle sharing system that serves the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, and San Jose. The bicycles are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to anyone who purchases a membership, with three options, annual fee of US$150 , US$29 for a month or US$15 ...
1973 Littlefield, Texas bus/train crash; 7 killed plus 16 injured [195] [196] 1974 Decatur tank car explosion, Decatur, Illinois; 7 killed plus hundreds injured [197] [198] 1976 1976 Beckemeyer train accident, 12 killed and four injured. 1976 New Canaan Branch collision, New Canaan, Connecticut; 2 killed plus 29 injured [186] [199]
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.BART serves 50 stations along six routes and 131 miles (211 kilometers) of track, including eBART, a 9-mile (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connector, a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving Oakland International Airport.
The system is popularly known as "Muni", a shortening of the "Municipal" in "San Francisco Municipal Railway" (and not an acronym). [10] Muni's logo is a stylized, trademarked "worm" version of the word muni. [11] This logo was designed by San Francisco-based graphic designer Walter Landor in the mid-1970s. [12]
The extension's approval represents a significant step in making California's high-speed bullet train between L.A. and San Francisco a reality.
In an image captured by an Amtrak train’s video camera, Joe Nevis is seen lying on the railroad tracks seconds before his legs were severed by the locomotive in Marysville, Calif. on Dec. 24, 2016.