Author: California. Legislature. Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Legislative Analyst
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Michael C. Healy
Publisher: Heyday.ORIM
ISBN: 1597143812
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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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

Author: Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: California. Legislature. Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Legislative Analyst
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 2254

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Author: California. Legislature. Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Legislative Analyst
Publisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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A review of the financial condition of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, the San Francisco Municipal Railway and the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District, with recommendations on the allocation of federal and state operating assistance to these transit systems by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Author: Peter Hall
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520420543
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analyzes the decisions of the professional bureaucrats, community activists, and politicians involved in the planning process. He draws on an eclectic body of theory from political science, economics, ethics, and long-range future forecasting to suggest ways to forestall such grand mistakes in the future. For this edition, Hall has added a special introduction in which he reflects further on the sequels to these cautionary tales and on the moral planners and citizens should draw from them.

Author: California. Legislature
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1418

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Public Works Committee
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1228

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Author: California. Legislature. Assembly
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 2038

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