Retired BART Automobiles Being Repurposed Into Arcades, Beer Gardens, and Extra

Eight fortunate winners have been awarded decommissioned BART vehicles, as BART introduced these retired vehicles will probably be reworked right into a retro online game arcade, a motorcycle restore store, and a beer backyard at The Oakland A’s stadium.

Your BART “Fleet of the Future” vehicles are nonetheless arriving, which results in the query… what occurs to the ”Fleet of the Previous?” Humorous you must ask! Their scrap steel will principally be recycled, however as SFist reported in 2020, BART put out a request for proposals for inventive varieties who may wish to reuse the vehicles for numerous and varied functions. And final week, the winners have been lastly introduced, and the Chronicle has a rundown of the eight winners of retired BART vehicles that can now be given new life in reincarnation.

“These vehicles are iconic to the Bay Space and to the those that not solely reside within the Bay Space now, however grew up driving these BART vehicles,” BART Supervisor of Particular Tasks Brian Tsukamoto stated in a press launch. “We’d prefer to see them given a brand new life. We’d prefer to see them repurposed and have individuals proceed to get pleasure from these vehicles.”

So the place are these retired BART vehicles going, and the way will they be fabulously refurbished by transit fans and occasion individuals? Let’s have a look.

Only a block from the MacArthur BART station, Arthur Mac’s Faucet and Snack plans to take an outdated BART automotive and rework it right into a “retro videogame arcade and youngsters play space” plus out of doors parklet. In keeping with their proposal, their imaginative and prescient “is to create a time capsule that transports our clients and group members past the confines of time and area.”

The Oakland A’s stadium additionally gained a automotive, which they plan to include into the stadium as a Bay Space craft beer backyard. “The inside would commemorate A’s historical past, and BART as an extension of it, by memorabilia, historic pictures, outdated jerseys, [and] autographed bats and balls,” in line with their profitable proposal. Although there’s no particular phrase on whether or not it is going to be within the present stadium, the proposed new stadium, or each.

How cool is that this? East Bay group bike group the Authentic Scraper Bike Staff gained a automotive that, within the phrases of BART, “will probably be divided into two sections: One half will function a motorcycle store, which can present free bike repairs and assist kids be taught to construct and embellish their very own Scraper bike; the opposite half will probably be a clubhouse for group occasions and Scraper Bike Groups’ mentorship program.”

Just a few different proposals have been awarded, although appear just a little obscure at this level.

• A bunch known as Hospitality in Transit will flip one right into a “coworking area, café and assembly place in the course of the day and transition to a beverage-slinging joint by evening,” although a location shouldn’t be but disclosed.
• The Bay Space Electrical Railroad Affiliation will flip one other right into a museum exhibit in Suisun Metropolis.
• The Hayward Hearth Division will use one for rescue simulations.
• One other will go to the Contra Costa County Hearth Safety District for a similar goal.
• One will turn into part of a short-tem rental property within the Sierra foothills, which the house owners hope to make right into a “metaphoric practice station that blends the area age-modern esthetics of BART and a comfy cabin,” and “will probably be constructed as inexperienced as attainable, with a photo voltaic panel roof, a grey water system and passive cooling.”

Associated: Decommissioned BART Practice Automobiles Might Grow to be Eating places, Artwork Items, and Extra

Picture: BART.gov