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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael C Healy |
ISBN: | 9781597143707 1597143707 |
OCLC Number: | 981979484 |
Notes: | Comprend un index. |
Description: | xvi, 365 pages : illustrations, cartes ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Foreword / by John King -- Introduction -- San Francisco, November 6, 1962 -- The birth of the San Francisco bay area -- Seeking a way -- The BARTD board begins its work -- The composite report -- What the voters voted on -- Beginning on a turbulent road -- The 1960s : various issues plague the work -- Rebellion in Berkeley -- The ripple effect from Berkeley -- The tunnel and the tube -- San Francisco subway construction presents new challenges -- The contract for transit cars goes to an aerospace company -- The BART board vs. Stokes -- Days of the long knives -- A critical decade ahead as ATC challenges persist -- The specter of bankruptcy -- The 1970s : precarious times continue -- 1977 and 1978 see several improvements and added service -- Close headways get the okay -- The 1980s : a decade of progress and scandal -- Loma Prieta becomes BART's finest hour -- A rocky road to expansion during the 1990s -- The 1990s are a bridge to the future -- New challenges in the millennium -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the author. |
Responsibility: | Michael C. Healy ; foreword by John King. |
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"Indispensable."-Michael Rosen, San Francisco Chronicle"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"From Emperor Norton's 1872 dream of a transbay tunnel to the BART tube opening one hundred years later, Healy explores the nuanced history of the Bay Area's subway system through the convergent lenses of social, cultural, engineering, and political forces. In this exquisitely researched work, Healy not only brings the dramatic stories of BART's development to light, but shares the fragile web of energies, power, funding, and sheer will that created this monumental system of people-moving."-Anthea M. Hartig, executive director of the California Historical Society Read more...


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