back in 1984, george watson compared the two. >> reporter: it seems that b.a.r.t. has settled for something less than it could be. it runs 16 trains in one direction for hour, not the promised 40. 349 trains travel on the 71 miles of track on a given day. that is half of b.a.r.t.'s capabilities. to put that into perspective let's take a 60 year step back in time. the key system ran 600 trains a day, one minute apart to the waiting commuter ferry boats while making more stops along the way, the old key was still almost as fast as b.a.r.t. is today. when the key was running on the bay bridge it took 28 minutes to travel from university avenue in berkeley to san francisco. today it takes b.a.r.t. 27 minutes. when you consider the fact the key system was a privately owned private seeking venture and that b.a.r.t. is a publicly subsidized operation that one minute difference becomes a mighty expensive proposition. to be fair let's look at it in a slightly different light. b.a.r.t. is all we have today and even though the system is less than what was promised, we do need