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Crossing Of San Francisco Bay: SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE,a state coeducational institution, located on a 94-acre campus near Lake Merced in southwestern San Francisco, Calif. Established in 1899 as San Francisco State Normal School, it became the San Francisco State Teachers College in 1921, and a state college under its present name in 1935, offering courses in liberal arts and sciences to supplement the professional work in education. In 1945 the college was authorized a five-year program for providing general secondary school credentials.
SAN FRANCISCO, san fran-sis'ko, city and port of entry, California, coextensive with San Francisco County and occupying the tip of the hilly San Francisco Peninsula, which lies midway on the coast of northern California. It is about 350 miles north of Los Angeles. Long known for the beauty of its site, its cosmopolitanism, and its varied and colorful history, it is one of the world's great seaports and the trading center of an extensive area rich in natural resources.
The project called for the location of subway, surface, and elevated routes in highly congested urban areas, including a 4.4-mi (7.1-km) tunnel through the Berkeley Hills and a 3.6-mi (5.8-km) underwater crossing of San Francisco Bay. The whole design problem was complicated by the fact that the area in which the system was to be built is subject to earthquakes. Innovations of BART included a new lightweight train to ride on wide-gauge track and new methods for vehicle propulsion, electric-power distribution, automatic train-control, and electronic fare-collection. |
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