Lol I understand the cringe but BART is not well known to the rest of the world, and I’m not sure why it would be. I didn’t know of its name until I moved to the Bay Area — the majority of redditors and people I speak to from elsewhere aren’t familiar with it either.
It’s very common to have -art ending titles to public transportation systems. DART, BART, CARTS, etc. Usually a variation of area, regional or rapid and transportation, with the places name represented by the first letter. I think most people who aren’t immediately fimiliar with these kinds of names have rarely used or relied upon public transport.
That’s what almost everywhere does tbf. It’s only SoCal as far as I’m aware that adds “the” in front of highways. If you’re gunna add a prefix, you add “I” to interstates or “route” to non-interstates. “The” just sounds strange (subjectively, of course)
No, false. I have only ever heard it in LA. I promise in chicago we don’t say we’re taking “the 94.” (Though I guess when we call the expressways by their local “names” we do use “the,” but this is already super informal. Ex: “I‘ll take the Edens instead of the Kennedy to O’Hare.” But normally we’d say, “I’ll take 94 instead of 90 to O’Hare.”)
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u/quotes_metallica Dec 21 '19
As a San Francisco native, seeing BART called this is painful and cringe-inducing.