BART forges "Public-Private Partnership," joins Info-Bahn.OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1994--The San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay Rapid Transit rapid transit, transportation system designed to allow passenger travel within or throughout an urban area, usually employing surface, elevated, or underground railway systems or some combination of these. (BART) system Wednesday took a major step toward becoming the first rapid transit operator in the nation to leverage its right of way to forge a full blown "Information Superhighway" in a unique public-private partnership Public-private partnership (PPP) describes a government service or private business venture which is funded and operated through a partnership of government and one or more private sector companies. These schemes are sometimes referred to as PPP or P3. . BART and its new telecommunications partners today signed contracts that will make BART a thoroughfare on the emerging national Information Superhighway and give the transit district a 21st century communications system that will accommodate its extensions and increased train service. BART, MFS MFS Medicare fee schedule Network Technologies Inc. and Pitney Bowes Credit Corp. signed a leasing agreement that cements the three in a public-private partnership to build and finance the fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber telecommunications system, while BART and Caltrans signed a separate agreement that allows the fiber optics system to be laid in freeway medians shared by BART and Caltrans. "We are very excited about the agreements and the telecommunications advancements they will bring," said BART Board President Margaret K. Pryor. "The agreement is very innovative, and, like fiber optics itself, very state-of-the-art. BART will become an integral part of the emerging `Information Superhighway' and get a state-of-the-art telecommunications system for its own use." BART General Manager Richard A. White Richard A. White is an American public transportation official who served as the CEO and General Manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, from 1996-2006[1]. said the agreements provide "an innovative and exciting opportunity to market the BART system in order to maximize the return on our taxpayers' investment and to generate new sources of revenue to help fund critically needed improvements to our transportation operation." BART will provide the 100 miles of rights of way, including BART's existing 71.5 mile system, the 35 miles of extensions, and some rights of way jointly used by BART and Caltrans; MFS Network Technologies will design, engineer, install and manage the telesystem's construction. Pitney Bowes Credit Corp. will finance the project. CONTACT: Bay Area Rapid Transit “BART” redirects here. For other uses of "BART" or "Bart", see Bart. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is a heavy rail public rapid-transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. District
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