BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Language: English
Published by Heyday, 2016
- Softcover
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Signed. First Edition. Signed by the author on the front free page: Best Wishes, Michale C. Healy. No other markings in lightly read book. 363pp.
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- Title
- BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
- Author
- Healy, Michael C.
- Publisher
- Heyday
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1597143707
- ISBN 13
- 9781597143707
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."
Written with a master storyteller's homey wit and sharp attention to detail, BART 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 Bill Stokes and Jack Everson to hear the election results for the rapid transit vote or 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.
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About the Author
John King is the San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic. He joined the paper in 1992 and has been in his current post since 2001. His writing on architecture and urban design has been honored by groups including the California Preservation Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the California chapters of the American Institute of Architects and the American Planning Association. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2002 and 2003.
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