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SAN FRANCISCO — As the sun peeked over the horizon on a recent Friday morning, only a few people stood on a platform in Pittsburg, California, to wait for a Bay Area Rapid Transit train that would whisk them nearly 40 miles southwest to San Francisco.
The working-class town with industrial roots sits on the edge of Suisun Bay and is known as a more affordable suburb. BART made it possible for Pittsburg residents to live in the farthest reaches of the Bay Area and avoid a cumbersome drive to San Francisco…