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Bart: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System

by Michael C. Healy

The people and politics behind BART

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The people and politics behind BART

Michael C. Healy traces BART from its inception and approval through construction and operation, using the transit system’s history to show the political negotiations and practical challenges behind a major public project. The account includes election-night uncertainty, scandals, labor strikes, and the growing pains of a new form of West Coast transit. Its institutional history is also a portrait of the people involved in building and running BART, presenting the system not just as infrastructure but as the outcome of sustained efforts to change public transportation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of BART and Bay Area public transportation.
  • Those curious about the politics and operations behind large public infrastructure projects.
  • Readers who enjoy institutional histories centered on the people involved.

Themes

Public transportationPolitical approval and public projectsInfrastructure and operationsInstitutional history

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Book overview

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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