Download or read book How Mass Transportation Will be Handled Over the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge written by Alfred J. Lundberg and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remaking the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge written by Karen Trapenberg Frick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State’s and the region’s leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter – part epilogue, part reflection – provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.
Download or read book I 80 I 180 Improvements San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge to Carquinez Bridge Alameda County written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BART written by Michael C. Healy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Public Mass Transportation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Industrial Reorganization Act Ground transportation industries written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Mass Transportation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Mass Transportation written by United States Congress. House, Banking and Currency Committee and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Francisco Bay Bridge Tolls Hearings on H R 5724 5729 5781 and 6201 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Easement for Construction of Toll Crossing of San Francisco Bay written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (81) S. 1390.
Download or read book Rediscovering the Golden State written by William A. Selby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fourth edition, Rediscovering the Golden State: California Geography examines this unique state’s incredibly diverse landscapes, and how geography and geographic change influences everything from the state’s natural systems and cycles, to its agriculture and more advanced industries, to human migration, cultures, and urban planning. Exploring California through a geographic lens reveals how the field has evolved to cross traditional boundaries, connect local and global issues, and provide the insights that lead to practical solutions to problems new and old. Challenging the reader to look beyond stereotypes and assumptions, this book encourages active participation in planning the state’s dynamic future. And this project makes teaching and learning about the geography of California more convenient, exciting, and rewarding for instructors and students. Going beyond a scientific analysis of natural features and environmental processes, this book illustrates how social, political, and economic divides can be bridged through the study of geography and the connections it brings to light. From geology, weather and climate, biogeography, and hydrology, we cover the state’s physical geography. And from demography and migration, to cultures and economies, to rural and urban geography, we monitor the state’s human geography pulse and then make the vital connections. California continues to lead the nation in population, economics (5th largest in the world), agriculture, natural and cultural diversity, and a host of other categories. This powerful state has earned this powerful publication. This timely and versatile book will prove useful to Californians in business, education, government, and to concerned citizens and curious readers seeking to learn more about the Golden State.
Download or read book The Journal of the Assembly During the Session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 2640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Mass Transportation Hearings Before 93 2 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works Committee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Assembly Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paying the Toll written by Louise Nelson Dyble and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge has become an icon for the beauty and prosperity of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a symbol of engineering achievement. Constructing the bridge posed political and financial challenges that were at least as difficult as those faced by the project's builders. To meet these challenges, northern California boosters created a new kind of agency: an autonomous, self-financing special district. The Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District developed into a powerful organization that shaped the politics and government of the Bay Area as much as the bridge shaped its physical development. From the moment of the bridge district's incorporation in 1928, its managers pursued their own agenda. They used all the resources at their disposal to preserve their control over the bridge, cultivating political allies, influencing regional policy, and developing an ambitious public relations program. Undaunted by charges of mismanagement and persistent efforts to turn the bridge (as well as its lucrative tolls) over to the state, the bridge district expanded into mass transportation, taking on ferry and bus operations to ensure its survival to this day. Drawing on previously unavailable archives, Paying the Toll gives us an inside view of the world of high-stakes development, cronyism, and bureaucratic power politics that have surrounded the Golden Gate Bridge since its inception.
Download or read book A Report on Transit Facilities and Mass Transportation in the Oakland Metropolitan Area written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
