Author: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Author: Michael C. Healy
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
ISBN: 1597143812
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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An insider’s “indispensible” behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties (Houston Chronicle). In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all. With a master storyteller’s wit and sharp attention to detail, Healy recreates the politically fraught venture to bring a new kind of public transit to the West Coast. What emerges is a sense of the individuals who made (and make) BART happen. From tales of staying up until 3:00 a.m. with BART pioneers Bill Stokes and Jack Everson to hear the election results for the rapid transit vote to stories of weathering scandals, strikes, and growing pains, this look behind the scenes of an iconic, seemingly monolithic structure reveals people at their most human—and determined to change the status quo. “The Metro. The T. The Tube. The world's most famous subway systems are known by simple monikers, and San Francisco's BART belongs in that class. Michael C. Healy delivers a tour-de-force telling of its roots, hard-fought approval, and challenging construction that will delight fans of American urban history.”—Doug Most, author of The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

Author: Church Building Society (Church of England).
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Category : Church architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: United States. Federal Transit Administration
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Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Author: Bartholomew H. Chilton
Publisher: Us Independent Agencies and Commissions
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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True stories of crime and punishment that will inform and educate anyone who wants to find out how to identify and avoid becoming entangled in an investment fraud.

Author: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: OGE Energy Corp
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Author: Matt Groening
Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment
ISBN: 9780007191697
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The human condition, the meaning of life, the nature of the universe -- it's all here in the musings of one of recent history's greatest philosophers ... Bart Simpson!

Author: Edward L. Glaeser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226297926
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as transportation and communication costs fall. Paradoxically, however, cities have become increasingly important, and even within cities industrial clusters remain vital. Agglomeration Economics brings together a group of essays that examine the reasons why economic activity continues to cluster together despite the falling costs of moving goods and transmitting information. The studies cover a wide range of topics and approach the economics of agglomeration from different angles. Together they advance our understanding of agglomeration and its implications for a globalized world.