New SF transit center setshigh bar for Fremont BART
Re: “Bay Area gains new icon with San Francisco’s ‘Grand Central station of the West’ ” (Eastbaytimes.com, Aug. 8):
I just visited the Transbay Transit Center and it’s beautiful. Civic pride oozes, from the terrazzo floors to the Penrose pattern siding. It’s a fitting welcome to all who use this portal to San Francisco.
On a much more modest scale, we take pride in our Altamont Corridor Express station on Fremont Boulevard – a lovingly restored relic of the past – and the new Warm Springs BART station.
However, our main portal is the tired and undermaintained Fremont BART station. The Fremont Art & Wine Festival brought thousands to our town. The impression they had once they got off the BART train – trash in the parking lots, bare dirt, sparse landscaping that is old and overgrown, restrooms that would embarrass an outhouse and signage that belongs at the Tech Museum.
This place was once a source of pride. With a little maintenance, it could be again. BART – step up!
Larry DavickFremont
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