Transportation progress: A banner year in the art of people moving saw California's BART go transbay

Increasing speeds and more comprehensive automatic control of systems operation marked progress in rail transportation during 1974. In the United Kingdom, five-hour express service was inaugurated on the newly completed all-electric London-Glasgow British Railways run. Very-high-speed vehicles racked up thousands of kilometers in test runs on the French National Railroads. And in Sao Paolo, Brazil, a new mass transit service was inaugurated using an ATC (automatic train control) system similar to that of San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).