BART announces eight finalists who will receive an old BART car to be repurposed for their Bay Area business.
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According to the transit agency, the cars will be transformed into beer gardens, short-term rentals, museum objects and more.
"These cars are iconic to the Bay Area and to the people that not only live in the Bay Area now, but grew up riding these BART cars," said Brian Tsukamoto, Manager of Special Projects – Decommissioning at BART. "We'd like to see them given a new life. We'd like to see them repurposed and have people continue to enjoy these cars."
The cars cost $8,000- $15,000 dollars to transport, the agency reported. Applicants had to include a plan for how they would transport the car to its new location and how they would dispose of the car once the company was done with it.
Arthur Mac's Tap & Snack in Oakland plans to turn the car into a "retro videogame arcade and kids play area," and us it as a weatherproof ding area, BART said.
The Oakland Athletics are adding a car to the Oakland Coliseum and repurposing it to be a museum that showcases the history of transit and sports in the East Bay.
The remaining cars will be recycled once the new fleet is complete.
To see all of the proposals, click here.
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