BART Designates 'Freedom Trains' for Martin Luther King Jr., Day.News Editors & City Desks OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2000 BART Board Vice President Willie Kennedy had announced the designation of five of its regular trains as 'Freedom Trains' when they leave their end-of-line stations to head for downtown San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden on Monday Jan. 17, as part of the Martin Luther King Jr., Day celebration. Celebrants taking the BART Freedom Trains may disembark dis·em·bark v. dis·em·barked, dis·em·bark·ing, dis·em·barks v.intr. 1. To go ashore from a ship. 2. To leave a vehicle or aircraft. v.tr. at BART's Montgomery Street Station Montgomery Street Station is a Muni Metro and Bay Area Rapid Transit station in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. It is located on the Market Street Subway beneath Market Street, between Montgomery Street and Sansome Street. to join up with the Martin Luther King Jr., Annual Freedom Day March down Market Street. Marchers are scheduled to begin assembling at the Caltrain Station, Fourth and Townsend streets in San Francisco This is a list of arterial thoroughfares and significant commercial corridors in San Francisco. Arterial Thoroughfares 19th Avenue Arterial thoroughfare that bisects the western part of the city, extending from Interstate 280 to Golden Gate Park on the way to the , at approximately 10:30 a.m. and will move up to Market Street.
The Freedom Trains will depart their end-of-the-line stations at
the following times:
Pittsburg/Bay Point 10:32 a.m.
Fremont 10:36 a.m.
Richmond 10:41 a.m.
Dublin/Pleasanton 10:44 a.m.
Colma 11:01 a.m.
The trains will arrive at the Montgomery Street Montgomery Street is a north-south thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, in the United States. It runs about 16 blocks from the Telegraph Hill neighborhood south through downtown, terminating at Market Street. BART Station between 11:18 and 11:28 a.m. Kennedy said she hopes people who are coming from the East Bay and San Mateo San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. who plan to participate in the Martin Luther King Jr., Day march and events will use the BART Freedom Trains and avoid traffic congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. in the city. Kennedy said that special promotional BART Flash Passes -- for use only to get people to and from the march and rally in San Francisco -- will be issued to event participants through the Northern California Martin King Jr., Day Celebration Committee. For information, call: 510/268-3777 in the East Bay, and 415/771-6300 in San Francisco. This is the second year that BART has worked with community leaders to provide the promotional tickets for pre-identified participants in the planned Martin Luther King Jr., events. |
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