$3.7M BART cars likely to be built overseas
BART is about to begin replacing its rail cars with 775 new ones – a necessary step for reliable service and a state of good repair. Matier and Ross report today that none of the five vendors who responded to the bid are based in the US – so despite “Buy American” rules, it’s likely that the cars will be assembled overseas. (Here’s BART’s summary of the “fleet of the Future” project.)
No, they will be assembled stateside in plants leased or owned by foreign based multinationals with parts from all over. Not really very different from when GM stamped body panels for Opels in the US and shipped them to Germany to be added to European sourced parts. The build it within the service area deal for the previous cars has been outlawed by the Feds likely on behalf of the very same multi nats.
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