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🧵1️⃣/2️⃣ From the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies archive: a 2000 study revisits restoring rail across the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, once home to Key System streetcars before conversion to auto-only traffic in 1963. 🚃

This fascinating history echoes the “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” era story of streetcar systems being dismantled as car infrastructure expanded across U.S. cities.

Learn more ⤵️ https://igs.berkeley.edu/news/rails-across-bay-exploring-forgotten-transportation-future

Rails Across the Bay: Exploring a Forgotten Transportation Future | Institute of Governmental Studies

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2️⃣/2️⃣ The document comes from LoCALDig, the California Local Government Documents Collection at U.C. Berkeley, a digital archive of planning reports, policy documents, and public records preserved in partnership with @internetarchive.

It makes infrastructure and governance history searchable and openly accessible for research and reuse.

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#SanFrancisco #BayArea #Oakland #Transit #PublicTransportation #UrbanPlanning

Kyra Eyerman posing beside the Key Route Train Station plaque in Oakland's Key Route Plaza. The plaque commemorates the arrival of the first Key Route electric train in 1904 and the station's role in East Bay transportation until the line's final run in 1958.

PAGE 14: RAIL ON THE BAY BRIDGE WEST SPANS, 1959

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