Author: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A Review of Some Anticipated and Observed Impacts of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Author: Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A Study of Earthquake Losses in the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Sylvester Theodore AlgermissenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Rapid Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Publication
Author: United States. Arms Control and Disarmament AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A Study of Earthquake Losses in the San Francisco Bay Area
Author: Environmental Research Laboratories (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Suburbanization and Its Implications for Urban Transportation Systems
Author: Jerry D. WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Suburbs
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
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
Planning and Administration
Author: Divided Loyalties
Author: Robert Morris AndersonPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9780931682094
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This study provides a detailed, in-depth analysis of a single incident rooted in the effort of a group of professional employees to serve the public welfare. It reveals in microcosm the interplay of political forces, economic interests, personal ambition, organizational structure, and professional ethics that culminated in an act of whistle-blowing. The incident took place during the final construction phase of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART), designed to be America's first attempt at space-age mass transportation. Three BART engineers, convinced of the lack of responsiveness of management to their concerns about the system's safety, were fired for insubordination and other organizational sins. Based upon repeated interviews with the engineers, with BART managers and directors, and with the professional societies involved, as well as upon an extensive body of documents and court depositions, legislative reports, media reports, and institutional memoranda. Divided Loyalties sets a theoretical context for the issues, traces the incident from its beginning, examines the aftermath of the engineers' dismissal, and concludes with a set of recommendations that should be considered by public and private organizations, professional associations, agencies of government, and individual professional employees.
Urban Elites and Mass Transportation
Author: J. Allen WhittPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400857457
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In an unusually systematic approach to the study of urban politics, this study compares three different models of political power to see which can best explain the development of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco and the attempts of Los Angeles to build a comparable system. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.