Ethan Elkind, “Railtown: The Fight for Los Angeles Metro Rail; and, The Future of the City”, 2014 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Michael Healy, “BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System”, 2016. The book consists of twenty-five (25) chapters; and, the “table of contents” is shown BELOW.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. San Francisco, November 6, 1962.
CHAPTER 2. The Birth of the San Francisco Bay Area.
CHAPTER 3. Seeking a Way.
CHAPTER 4. The BARTD Board Begins Its Work.
CHAPTER 5. The Composite Report.
CHAPTER 6. What the Voters Voted On.
CHAPTER 7. Beginning on a Turbulent Road.
CHAPTER 8. The 1960s: Various Issues Plague the Work.
CHAPTER 9. Rebellion in Berkeley.
CHAPTER 10. The Ripple Effect from Berkeley.
CHAPTER 11. The Tunnel and the Tube.
CHAPTER 12. San Francisco Subway Construction Presents New Challenges.
CHAPTER 13. The Contract for Transit Cars Goes to an Aerospace Company.
CHAPTER 14. The BART Board vs. Stokes.
CHAPTER 15. Days of the Long Knives.
CHAPTER 16. A Critical Decade Ahead as ATC Challenges Persist.
CHAPTER 17. The Specter of Bankruptcy.
CHAPTER 18. The 1970s: Precarious Times Continue.
CHAPTER 19. 1977 and 1978 See Several Improvements and Added Service.
CHAPTER 20. Close Headways Get the Okay.
CHAPTER 21. The 1980s: A Decade of Progress and Scandal.
CHAPTER 22. Loma Prieta Becomes BART’s Finest Hour.
CHAPTER 23. A Rocky Road to Expansion during the 1990s.
CHAPTER 24. The 1990s Are a Bridge to the Future.
CHAPTER 25. New Challenges in the New Millennium.
Here I presented: Michael Healy, “BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System”, 2016. The book consists of twenty-five (25) chapters; and, the “table of contents” was shown ABOVE. 
The six (6) subway lines; and, the system map and San Francisco map are shown HERE.
