Electric Railways in California - Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Diego Trolley, Pacific Electric Railway, Mount Lowe Railway, Key System (Paperback)


Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Diego Trolley, Pacific Electric Railway, Mount Lowe Railway, Key System, East Bay Electric Lines, Expo Line, Southern California Rapid Transit District, San Diego Electric Railway, Los Angeles Railway, California-Nevada Interstate Maglev, San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway, Shipyard Railway, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. Excerpt: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The heavy-rail public transit system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County. BART operates five lines on 104 miles (167 km) of track with 44 stations in four counties. With average weekday ridership of 341,151 passengers, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system and one of the quietest in the United States. BART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special-purpose transit district that was formed in 1957 to cover San Francisco, Alameda County, and Contra Costa County. The name BART is an acronym and is pronounced as a word, not as individual letters. In some ways, BART is the successor to the Key System, which ran streetcars across the lower deck of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge until 1958. BART has served as a rapid transit and commuter rail system, and provided an alternative transportation route to highway transportation, though its critics counter its success has taken four decades to come to fruition at a steep cost during the interim. Due to the number of commuters depending upon the rail system, BART has been undergoing modernization to improve the quality of the system and its ability to serve the public's transportation needs. This modernization has included overhauls of the stations, the purchase of new and refurbished rolling stoc...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Bay Area Rapid Transit, San Diego Trolley, Pacific Electric Railway, Mount Lowe Railway, Key System, East Bay Electric Lines, Expo Line, Southern California Rapid Transit District, San Diego Electric Railway, Los Angeles Railway, California-Nevada Interstate Maglev, San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway, Shipyard Railway, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. Excerpt: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The heavy-rail public transit system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County. BART operates five lines on 104 miles (167 km) of track with 44 stations in four counties. With average weekday ridership of 341,151 passengers, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system and one of the quietest in the United States. BART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special-purpose transit district that was formed in 1957 to cover San Francisco, Alameda County, and Contra Costa County. The name BART is an acronym and is pronounced as a word, not as individual letters. In some ways, BART is the successor to the Key System, which ran streetcars across the lower deck of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge until 1958. BART has served as a rapid transit and commuter rail system, and provided an alternative transportation route to highway transportation, though its critics counter its success has taken four decades to come to fruition at a steep cost during the interim. Due to the number of commuters depending upon the rail system, BART has been undergoing modernization to improve the quality of the system and its ability to serve the public's transportation needs. This modernization has included overhauls of the stations, the purchase of new and refurbished rolling stoc...

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August 2011

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August 2011

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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52

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978-1-233-15641-2

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9781233156412

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