The Bay Area Rapid Transit system was once so successful, it could rely mostly on riders to sustain itself. But the pandemic dealt BART an unusually heavy blow.
As the sun peeked over the horizon on a recent Friday morning, only a few people stood on a platform in Pittsburg, Calif., to wait for a Bay Area Rapid Transit train that would whisk them nearly 40 miles southwest to San Francisco.
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