The State - News from Feb. 8, 1987
Bay Area Rapid Transit district directors are considering converting some of the system’s new train cars to bar cars, offering alcoholic beverages, next year. Director Wilfred Ussery said commuter rail lines in Chicago and New York now have bars, “and their ridership has increased.” The idea is also being considered by California Department of Transportation officials as a way of salvaging patronage on the Peninsula’s CalTrain system, which now carries only 17,000 riders a day between the Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Average BART daily ridership on the 71-mile system has dropped from a high of about 210,000 in mid-1985 to below 200,000.
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