Author: Parsons Brinckerhoff/Tudor/BechtelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Trans-bay Tube
Author: Parsons Brinckerhoff/Tudor/BechtelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Trans-bay Tube
Author: Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Trans-bay Tube
Author: Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District Trans-bay Tube Engineering Report
Author: Parsons Brinckerhoff/Tudor/BechtelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Report of the Board of Inquiry on the Fire in the Transbay Tube of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District on January 17, 1979
Author: BART
Author: Michael C. HealyPublisher: 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
The Transbay Tube
Author: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Railtown
Author: Ethan N. ElkindPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520278275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a result of pressure from local leaders, particularly with the election of Tom Bradley as mayor in 1973, the Los Angeles Metro Rail gradually took shape in the consummate car city. Railtown presents the history of this system by drawing on archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with many of the key players to provide critical behind-the-scenes accounts of the people and forces that shaped the system. Ethan Elkind brings this important story to life by showing how ambitious local leaders zealously advocated for rail transit and ultimately persuaded an ambivalent electorate and federal leaders to support their vision. Although Metro Rail is growing in ridership and political importance, with expansions in the pipeline, Elkind argues that local leaders will need to reform the rail planning and implementation process to avoid repeating past mistakes and to ensure that Metro Rail supports a burgeoning demand for transit-oriented neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This engaging history of Metro Rail provides lessons for how the American car-dominated cities of today can reinvent themselves as thriving railtowns of tomorrow.
Report of the Board of Inquiry on the Fire in the Transbay Tube of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District on January 17, 1979
Author: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.). Board of InquiryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transbay Tube (San Francisco Bay, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Author: Kaiser Engineers