>Even opponents of the Nov. 3 balloting in San Francisco, Oakland,
>Emeryville and Berkeley can be excused for a twinge of nostalgia.
>
>The electric trains, including those operated by Southern Pacific
>and
>Sacramento Northern, were highly efficient.
>
>They ran on the bridge's lower deck and were guided safely at
>intervals as
>close as 63 seconds by an automatic control system. In 1945, the Key System
>set a record when it carried 34.9 million passengers, 26.5 million by rail
>and about 8.5 million by bus.
An automatic train control system that runs trains every 63 seconds.
That's 57 trains an hour - more than Muni's ATCS runs per hour today!
Must have been nice. Yes on I.
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