Author: Michael C. Healy
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
ISBN: 1597143812
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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
BART
Author: Michael C. Healy
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
ISBN: 1597143812
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
ISBN: 1597143812
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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
BART
Author: Michael C. Healy
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN: 9781597143707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The history of Bay Area Rapid Transit, as told by "Mr. BART" himself
Publisher: Heyday Books
ISBN: 9781597143707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The history of Bay Area Rapid Transit, as told by "Mr. BART" himself
The Bay Area Rapid Transit System
A Review of Some Anticipated and Observed Impacts of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Author: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Station Descriptions
Author: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit stations
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit stations
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
BART/Trails
Author: Hart, Krivatsy, Stubee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Mass Transit and the Politics of Technology
Author: Stephen Zwerling
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Bay Area Rapid Transit System - Current Status and Impacts. Working Paper
Development of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (bartd).
Rapid Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Michael C. Kleiber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description