The front piston is located in the concrete vault. While most old inground lifts have a load capacity of 36,000 pounds, Rotary Lift says the Retrofit 60 can lift up to 60,000 pounds.

The tube retrofit is included in that cost. The steel tube is 3.6 miles long and laid down in sections. The sandy bottom of the Bay acts as a suspension in case of movement.

The half-billion-dollar Transbay retrofit concludes BART’s 20-year, $1.5 billion retrofit of the system. That includes 74 miles of track including bridges and support structures, 34 of 50 of ...

BART’s Transbay Tube turns 50, seismic retrofit complete by: Alex Baker, Charles Clifford Posted: Sep 16, 2024 / 12:51 PM PDT Updated: Sep 16, 2024 / 01:50 PM PDT ...

The transit system’s $1.5 billion seismic retrofit project started in 2004 and included 74 miles of track and 34 stations and structures in addition to the Transbay Tube, which runs along the ...

More work needs to be done to bolster the tube and parts of the rest of the system, including 34 stations, 22 miles of elevated track and 1,918 support columns.

Early-morning BART riders are going to have some company on the train for a few days. BART staff this week started riding trains at 4 a.m. to get feedback from riders on service changes that will ...

The Spotline retrofit kit works with two-post and four-post surface lifts, light-duty in-ground lifts and heavy-duty parallelogram and scissor lift models, according to Rotary Lift. The kit comes ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — BART’s Transbay Tube celebrated its 50th birthday Monday. The 3.6-mile tube that carries thousands of passengers under the Bay from Oakland to San Francisco every day ...