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Name: Author Talk with Michael C. Healy, Author of "BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System"
Start: 2023-10-24T02:00+00:00
End: 2023-10-24T06:59+00:00

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Author Talk with Michael C. Healy, Author of "BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System"

Date: 10/23/2023 7:00 PM 10/23/2023 7:00 PM 10/23/2023

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Michael C. Healy will discuss his book BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations. He recreates the politically fraught venture to bring a new kind of public transit to the West Coast. Nicknamed “Mr. BART” by his colleagues, Michael C. Healy was responsible for BART’s media affairs and marketing activities from 1971—about ten months before trains started running—until his retirement in 2004. He wrote for radio and film and was the editor of The Sausalito News before taking a public relations job at the nascent transit agency. He is an alumnus of the University of Southern California.

Join via Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/2jd4tw8j

Find information about Michael C. Healy and his book at www.heydaybooks.com.

For more info, call Blanche at 925-373-5574.

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