{"language": "en", "segments": [{"text": " [...]", "start": 0.0, "stop": 2.84, "id": 0}, {"text": " You've all seen bits and pieces of Bart's construction.", "start": 51.24, "stop": 54.06, "id": 1}, {"text": " Maybe you've watched some market street digging.", "start": 55.86, "stop": 57.94, "id": 2}, {"text": " Seen the completed Albany aerials.", "start": 59.08, "stop": 61.34, "id": 3}, {"text": " Been inconvenienced in downtown Oakland or on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley.", "start": 62.6, "stop": 66.58, "id": 4}, {"text": " Past a Rinda crossroads and figured all those bulldozers were just leveling", "start": 69.56, "stop": 73.02, "id": 5}, {"text": " another hillside for another freeway.", "start": 73.02, "stop": 74.56, "id": 6}, {"text": " But whatever you've seen or bypassed or wondered about, you've only seen a small", "start": 75.82, "stop": 80.22, "id": 7}, {"text": " part of a 75 mile system now being built in three counties.", "start": 80.22, "stop": 83.88, "id": 8}, {"text": " We want you to see some facts about your new inter-urban rapid transit", "start": 84.44, "stop": 88.94, "id": 9}, {"text": " system. Not just read about it.", "start": 88.94, "stop": 91.18, "id": 10}, {"text": " So watch and we'll keep quiet most of the time.", "start": 91.72, "stop": 94.44, "id": 11}, {"text": " First, let's take a look from the air.", "start": 96.66, "stop": 98.32, "id": 12}, {"text": " The completed Albany aerials structures, part of the Richmond-Berkeley line.", "start": 99.7, "stop": 103.28, "id": 13}, {"text": " The same type of aerials under construction in Hayward.", "start": 104.92, "stop": 107.22, "id": 14}, {"text": " A section of the Fremont-Oakland line.", "start": 107.88, "stop": 109.68, "id": 15}, {"text": " And incidentally, even as you watch this film, all the", "start": 110.28, "stop": 113.9, "id": 16}, {"text": " construction you're looking at has progressed.", "start": 113.9, "stop": 115.72, "id": 17}, {"text": " What you're seeing is how it looked the day we filmed it.", "start": 116.54, "stop": 119.84, "id": 18}, {"text": " And the day our camera saw this was several months ago.", "start": 122.42, "stop": 125.5, "id": 19}, {"text": " Entrance to the downtown Oakland subway.", "start": 126.76, "stop": 128.8, "id": 20}, {"text": " The Lake Merritt tidal outfall.", "start": 134.92, "stop": 138.66, "id": 21}, {"text": " Up Broadway and the crossover to the Berkeley and Contra Costa lines.", "start": 153.52, "stop": 156.94, "id": 22}, {"text": " Now let's look more closely.", "start": 180.32, "stop": 181.86, "id": 23}, {"text": " First, getting ready for the Transbay tube linking Oakland and San Francisco.", "start": 182.72, "stop": 186.44, "id": 24}, {"text": " Which will enter the bay at the site of the Oakland Mall, cross under the bridge", "start": 186.84, "stop": 190.48, "id": 25}, {"text": " and enter the Market Street subway under the ferry building.", "start": 190.48, "stop": 193.24, "id": 26}, {"text": " Pilings that mark the old ferry boat slips must be pulled up and hauled away.", "start": 196.22, "stop": 200.54, "id": 27}, {"text": " High pressure hoses loosen dirt around the base.", "start": 206.28, "stop": 211.04, "id": 28}, {"text": " The old San Francisco wharves dating back to the time of ferry boat commuting are", "start": 214.84, "stop": 219.6, "id": 29}, {"text": " removed to make way for high speed trains.", "start": 219.6, "stop": 221.96, "id": 30}, {"text": " Which will make the trip from Oakland to San Francisco in eight minutes.", "start": 221.96, "stop": 225.64, "id": 31}, {"text": " The tube itself will consist of 57 sections like this one, ready", "start": 229.02, "stop": 233.9, "id": 32}, {"text": " for launching at Bethlehem shipyard.", "start": 233.9, "stop": 235.46, "id": 33}, {"text": " Each double barreled section is 350 feet long and weighs some 800", "start": 241.96, "stop": 246.62, "id": 34}, {"text": " tons when it slides into the bay.", "start": 246.62, "stop": 248.38, "id": 35}, {"text": " After launching, the section is nudged to an outfitting dock where reinforced", "start": 262.16, "stop": 266.64, "id": 36}, {"text": " concrete is applied to the interior walls until its weight reaches 12,000 tons.", "start": 266.64, "stop": 271.66, "id": 37}, {"text": " More than a World War II Liberty ship.", "start": 272.34, "stop": 274.32, "id": 38}, {"text": " In the early morning hours when traffic is light on the bay, the section is towed", "start": 275.18, "stop": 279.72, "id": 39}, {"text": " to the Oakland side where it's slung beneath a giant catamaran barge and gently", "start": 279.72, "stop": 284.38, "id": 40}, {"text": " lowered into place along a shallow trench dredged across the floor of the bay.", "start": 284.38, "stop": 288.22, "id": 41}, {"text": " Hydraulic couplers lock each section to its mate.", "start": 289.66, "stop": 292.36, "id": 42}, {"text": " They're made watertight and the process is repeated for the 57 sections", "start": 293.08, "stop": 297.34, "id": 43}, {"text": " and four long years.", "start": 297.34, "stop": 299.24, "id": 44}, {"text": " While section after section of bay tube is built and launched, Bart's work", "start": 300.74, "stop": 306.06, "id": 45}, {"text": " progresses in more than a dozen sites in the three counties.", "start": 306.06, "stop": 309.22, "id": 46}, {"text": " Demolition to make way for aerial structures.", "start": 311.3, "stop": 313.46, "id": 47}, {"text": " Cut and cover in downtown Oakland for the subway.", "start": 318.56, "stop": 322.8, "id": 48}, {"text": " Moving utilities and sewers for the San Francisco subway.", "start": 324.34, "stop": 327.22, "id": 49}, {"text": " But one substantial contribution to the system is being made far enough from your", "start": 328.22, "stop": 332.98, "id": 50}, {"text": " front door that it's no inconvenience at all.", "start": 332.98, "stop": 335.86, "id": 51}, {"text": " The Kaiser plant in Napa is making steel tunnel liners for the 21 miles of", "start": 336.74, "stop": 340.84, "id": 52}, {"text": " subway, almost one third of the total bark system.", "start": 340.84, "stop": 343.84, "id": 53}, {"text": " First, a gang burner cuts the five-ton sheet of steel.", "start": 345.06, "stop": 348.02, "id": 54}, {"text": " A giant magnet lifts the cut piece.", "start": 354.7, "stop": 357.44, "id": 55}, {"text": " After the inside seams are welded, this section will be bent.", "start": 359.12, "stop": 362.82, "id": 56}, {"text": " And the final large ring undergoes processing, some automatic.", "start": 378.02, "stop": 382.5, "id": 57}, {"text": " The bent sections go to the huge welding bay.", "start": 385.74, "stop": 391.1, "id": 58}, {"text": " More treatment and constant inspection.", "start": 396.36, "stop": 403.0, "id": 59}, {"text": " Finally, milling and grinding to complete each three-ton ring.", "start": 404.58, "stop": 409.22, "id": 60}, {"text": " Stacked and stored.", "start": 418.3, "stop": 422.14, "id": 61}, {"text": " Ready to be placed in Bart's subways.", "start": 423.38, "stop": 425.22, "id": 62}, {"text": " Closer to home and part of your surface riot, Orinda Crossroads.", "start": 426.96, "stop": 431.16, "id": 63}, {"text": " These bulldozers were leveling a hillside for a new freeway.", "start": 432.7, "stop": 436.06, "id": 64}, {"text": " Not only relocated, but widened to accommodate Bart trains in the median strip.", "start": 436.86, "stop": 441.26, "id": 65}, {"text": " It's estimated that this portion of the Concord to Berkeley line will save", "start": 442.22, "stop": 446.28, "id": 66}, {"text": " taxpayers millions of dollars because of the joint use of a narrow transportation", "start": 446.28, "stop": 450.98, "id": 67}, {"text": " corridor by Bart and the California Division of Highways.", "start": 450.98, "stop": 454.16, "id": 68}, {"text": " What about the route from Orinda to Berkeley?", "start": 455.92, "stop": 458.2, "id": 69}, {"text": " Over the hills where there is no transportation corridor, even a narrow one.", "start": 458.96, "stop": 462.88, "id": 70}, {"text": " The answer is through these hills.", "start": 463.82, "stop": 466.24, "id": 71}, {"text": " We can fly from the east portal, Orinda side, to the", "start": 467.0, "stop": 471.14, "id": 72}, {"text": " west portal in a few minutes.", "start": 471.14, "stop": 472.72, "id": 73}, {"text": " It's taking two years to tunnel these hills, but your Bart train will make the", "start": 473.66, "stop": 479.14, "id": 74}, {"text": " trip in three and one half minutes.", "start": 479.14, "stop": 481.0, "id": 75}, {"text": " So now the highlight of our get ready year.", "start": 483.1, "stop": 486.36, "id": 76}, {"text": " Breaking through from the east and west portals of the Berkeley Hills Tunnel.", "start": 487.08, "stop": 490.72, "id": 77}, {"text": " A Bart staff member watched the breakthrough, and he reports.", "start": 491.96, "stop": 495.64, "id": 78}, {"text": " Thursday, February 23rd, 1967, 11 p.m.", "start": 496.96, "stop": 500.08, "id": 79}, {"text": " Word goes out, tunnel will hold through sometime during the graveyard shift.", "start": 500.82, "stop": 504.1, "id": 80}, {"text": " Friday, February 24th, 2.10 a.m.", "start": 505.36, "stop": 507.46, "id": 81}, {"text": " Daffining Den as jumbo red crew drills holes in face for first of what was to be", "start": 508.24, "stop": 512.84, "id": 82}, {"text": " three blasts during the shift. 2.30 a.m.", "start": 512.84, "stop": 516.24, "id": 83}, {"text": " During a pause, speculation on part of the miners as to who will win the $300", "start": 516.92, "stop": 521.12, "id": 84}, {"text": " pool predicting exact minute of breakthrough. 60 men, $5 apiece.", "start": 521.12, "stop": 525.56, "id": 85}, {"text": " Dynamite set off in small charges for safety of both", "start": 526.88, "stop": 529.26, "id": 86}, {"text": " crews working so close together.", "start": 529.26, "stop": 530.86, "id": 87}, {"text": " Told it would be a long night. 4 a.m.", "start": 531.6, "stop": 535.04, "id": 88}, {"text": " Muck crew cleans up face from last blast.", "start": 535.84, "stop": 537.9, "id": 89}, {"text": " Discouraging report, tunnelers have to install two more tunnel rings before", "start": 538.58, "stop": 542.68, "id": 90}, {"text": " another blast. 6 a.m.", "start": 542.68, "stop": 546.3, "id": 91}, {"text": " Exciting news.", "start": 546.7, "stop": 547.48, "id": 92}, {"text": " Tunnelers have opened a three foot long shaft for the drill", "start": 548.1, "stop": 550.3, "id": 93}, {"text": " and can talk to the Arinda crew.", "start": 550.3, "stop": 552.12, "id": 94}, {"text": " Furious work with pry rods enlarges holes the size of a football and last blast", "start": 553.76, "stop": 557.52, "id": 95}, {"text": " neatly open the entire top of the face.", "start": 557.52, "stop": 559.42, "id": 96}, {"text": " Both crews move sharply to shore up ceiling and then after 446 days of working", "start": 559.96, "stop": 565.5, "id": 97}, {"text": " opposite each other, exchange places in their own type of ceremony.", "start": 565.5, "stop": 568.98, "id": 98}, {"text": " Saturday, February 25th, 10 a.m.", "start": 569.84, "stop": 579.14, "id": 99}, {"text": " Alameda and Contra Costa County officials, park directors, engineers,", "start": 580.02, "stop": 583.92, "id": 100}, {"text": " members of the press don yellow slickers.", "start": 584.28, "stop": 585.82, "id": 101}, {"text": " Take the first ride all the way through the fourth longest", "start": 586.1, "stop": 588.72, "id": 102}, {"text": " vehicular tunnel in the United States.", "start": 588.72, "stop": 590.46, "id": 103}, {"text": " And meet in a modest ceremony deep in the", "start": 591.8, "stop": 596.68, "id": 104}, {"text": " Berkeley Hills marking the holding through.", "start": 596.68, "stop": 598.32, "id": 105}, {"text": " And when your BART train emerges from the Berkeley Hills tunnel, it will glide", "start": 601.74, "stop": 606.98, "id": 106}, {"text": " along another medium strip, that of the Grove Shafter Freeway, so called missing", "start": 606.98, "stop": 611.9, "id": 107}, {"text": " link in the Bay Area's highway system.", "start": 611.9, "stop": 613.72, "id": 108}, {"text": " BART trains will enter the downtown Oakland subway from the", "start": 614.3, "stop": 617.86, "id": 109}, {"text": " Grove Shafter Freeway medium.", "start": 617.86, "stop": 619.42, "id": 110}, {"text": " And you will enter the same subway from southern Alameda", "start": 620.22, "stop": 623.34, "id": 111}, {"text": " County at 8th and Fallon Streets.", "start": 623.34, "stop": 625.08, "id": 112}, {"text": " A few blocks from BART's headquarters building and automatic train control", "start": 625.76, "stop": 629.58, "id": 113}, {"text": " complex, nerve center for the computerized 75 mile network.", "start": 629.58, "stop": 634.0, "id": 114}, {"text": " Work started on this subway in late fall 1965.", "start": 635.44, "stop": 638.98, "id": 115}, {"text": " A year ago, this section of the subway had progressed this far.", "start": 640.2, "stop": 643.66, "id": 116}, {"text": " Music Today, the structure is ready for tracks, trains, and ultimately, you.", "start": 661.5, "stop": 667.34, "id": 117}, {"text": " What will the aerials really look like?", "start": 671.8, "stop": 674.88, "id": 118}, {"text": " Completed and landscaped like this.", "start": 676.08, "stop": 678.32, "id": 119}, {"text": " The four and one half mile test track between Concord and Walnut Creek.", "start": 679.96, "stop": 683.76, "id": 120}, {"text": " We can't show", "start": 687.22, "stop": 693.98, "id": 121}, {"text": " you the market street subway yet.", "start": 693.98, "stop": 695.48, "id": 122}, {"text": " But if you don't like temporary detours, traffic jams, and gaping holes, wait.", "start": 696.24, "stop": 703.1, "id": 123}, {"text": " Construction of the downtown Oakland subway makes a few", "start": 704.92, "stop": 707.9, "id": 124}, {"text": " detours seem like a picnic.", "start": 707.9, "stop": 709.42, "id": 125}, {"text": " And Berkeley pedestrians and motorists are already living with huge excavations.", "start": 712.4, "stop": 717.16, "id": 126}, {"text": " As General Manager B.R. Stokes told the Commonwealth Club in April 1967, the next", "start": 717.88, "stop": 724.74, "id": 127}, {"text": " two years or so will be years of travail, of digging dirt, of erecting", "start": 724.74, "stop": 729.78, "id": 128}, {"text": " steel, of pouring concrete.", "start": 729.78, "stop": 731.76, "id": 129}, {"text": " I pledge that everyone associated with the district will do his level best to", "start": 732.9, "stop": 737.16, "id": 130}, {"text": " deliver this system to you as nearly on schedule as is humanly possible.", "start": 737.16, "stop": 741.6, "id": 131}, {"text": " We've said that it will be the finest in the world. We promise you it", "start": 742.18, "stop": 746.36, "id": 132}, {"text": " will be no less than that.", "start": 746.36, "stop": 747.86, "id": 133}, {"text": " Today, more than half the 75 mile system is under construction.", "start": 749.72, "stop": 754.32, "id": 134}, {"text": " But tomorrow, next month, next year, as heavy construction increases, you'll find", "start": 754.96, "stop": 760.84, "id": 135}, {"text": " more detours, not fewer.", "start": 760.84, "stop": 762.78, "id": 136}, {"text": " More blocked off traffic lanes and excavations, all of which are", "start": 763.32, "stop": 768.06, "id": 137}, {"text": " necessary inconveniences.", "start": 768.06, "stop": 769.78, "id": 138}, {"text": " But happily, temporary.", "start": 770.14, "stop": 773.34, "id": 139}, {"text": " So when you see this, or this,", "start": 776.18, "stop": 782.42, "id": 140}, {"text": " or this,", "start": 785.12, "stop": 787.4, "id": 141}, {"text": " remember, this daily reality of inconvenience is all part of getting ready.", "start": 791.86, "stop": 796.54, "id": 142}, {"text": " Getting ready to bring you the speed, the safety, the comfort and convenience,", "start": 797.48, "stop": 803.54, "id": 143}, {"text": " and the economy of the world's newest interurban rapid transit system.", "start": 804.16, "stop": 808.52, "id": 144}]}