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

by Michael C. Healy

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, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597143707
• ISBN13: 9781597143707
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"