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My grandfather Marvin Lewis visioned

in the 1950s as a 9 county Monorail to run across both bridges. The station was to be in front of City Hall. The whole story is written here: BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System amazon.com/dp/1597143707/

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Fascinating stuff. Would love to take this book and do a full on video doc. Whatcha think @BlakeGuidryFilm

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I recently found a bunch of old

pamphlets at my friends house in Boston. Cool #Bart history!

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So cool Marc!

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Great story -- great legacy!

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And of course NIMBYs kept that from happening, sadly. Your grandfather had vision.

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too bad it fell very short of its total potential.

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Wow! 💪💪

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That system map is what should have been built... It’s incredible all the places that you could go... Imagine how much better traffic would be today if that was the system built...

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