Daily public transit ridership
Subtitle: the inside scoop
By: by Peter Felton
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781462699841
Subjects: Commuters; Social life and customs; Street-railroads; San Francisco (Calif.). Municipal Transportation Agency; San Francisco (Calif.).; Anecdotes; Bus occupants; Local transit; History
Description: Picking up from where other San Francisco public transit historians have left off, Peter Felton's book gives readers an acute internal perspective as to the routine external operations of the late 20th-, early-21st-century-era San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (or "Muni" as it is more commonly nicknamed). Ranging from vehicular characteristics to urban development above and below ground level, Felton provides intricate details into the life and times of the "average Joe" public transit rider traveling around the City of San Francisco by bus or subway train. With a majority of the information taken strictly from a young lifetime of permanent public custom, Felton colorfully outlines the awe and wonder arising from riding this means of public service day-in-and-day-out, acknowledging realities and comparing-contrasting past, present, and future transit modalities drawn completely from personal experience and observation-yet portrayed entirely on a "general basis." - Amazon.com
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Making tracks : authorization; title: Prologue. Street smarts; title: Attention Muni patrons : headlight introduction; title: Muni and BART in the tunnel of love; title: The Muni metropolis : Boeing vs Breda; title: Prove your money's worth by taking train control; title: Platformations; title: Dare to embark upon the Embarcadero; title: Articulate articulateds; title: Two buses in one; title: A new plan for neoplan; title: Electrifying electric trolleybuses; title: Clip-on, clip-off : the Clipper; title: Muni vehicle skin tones : whites vs colors; title: End of the lines(s); title: Digitalization; title: Muni math facts & word problems; title: Appendix 1 & 2.