Bay Area Rapid Transit Concepts

Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse

by Thomas Chatterton Williams · 4 Aug 2025 · 242pp · 76,315 words

first and most visible instances of the shift to digital- and social media–based racial justice organizing followed the 2009 murder of Oscar Grant by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer Johannes Mehserle. Grant, a twenty-two-year-old Black father on his way home from celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends

Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance

by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge · 29 Mar 2020 · 159pp · 42,401 words

goal of helping citizens lobby for local legislation regulating law enforcement’s ability to eavesdrop. A dozen jurisdictions, from the city of Seattle to the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, have adopted CCOPS laws. Some thirty other cities have movements to push for these controls. The state that gave us Silicon Valley is also

The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--And the Coming Cashless Society

by David Wolman · 14 Feb 2012 · 275pp · 77,017 words

a corporate job traveling the world to help with secure systems at NATO, satellite communications in Southeast Asia, and reliable data communications for California’s Bay Area Rapid Transit. He was one of the founders of a consultancy in the 1980s. Secure computer networks and financial transactions have many points in common, and Birch

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

by Rebecca MacKinnon · 31 Jan 2012 · 390pp · 96,624 words

access to mobile services as well as to social networks. In the United States, San Franciscans were up in arms after the local subway system, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), shut down wireless service at several stations to prevent a planned protest against a shooting by BART police of an allegedly knife-wielding man

Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America

by Writers For The 99% · 17 Dec 2011 · 173pp · 54,729 words

’s West Coast epicenter. Naming its original encampment Oscar Grant Plaza— after a young Oakland man who had been fatally shot in the back by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer Johannes Mehserle on New Years Day 2009—Occupy Oakland cast the local movement in direct opposition to the city’s long history

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz · 1 Mar 2013 · 567pp · 122,311 words

, or a selection of one alternative from a set of possibilities.” His application of discrete choice modeling to estimate the adoption of San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit system—which was under construction at the time of his research—earned him the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics.[149] One important conclusion from this

Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business

by John Newhouse · 16 Jan 2007 · 278pp · 83,504 words

new employee parking garages. The other up-to-date feature is a light rail system that connects the terminals, garages, rental car offices, and a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station that is located at the entrance of the international terminal. Bus and auto traffic on surface roads has been reduced. John Martin, the

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman · 4 Nov 2014 · 457pp · 126,996 words

with the lulz as well, someone will. A prime example is Operation BART from August 2011. Anonymous was spurred into action when San Francisco BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) officials sought to disable mobile phone reception on station platforms to thwart a planned anti–police brutality march. Local activists had called for the demonstration

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faraway TV screen—the Guy Fawkes mask. Jolted, I trotted over to the monitor. CNN was showing a tweet calling for “OpBART” (“BART” stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit). From the visual clues provided by CNN, I realized that this operation was not only big. It also seemed to fit the mold of the

Lonely Planet Pocket San Francisco

by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing · 31 Aug 2012

. Arriving in San Francisco Top Tip To find out how best to get to your accommodations, Click here . From San Francisco International Airport (SFO) BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit; www.bart.gov; one-way $8.10) Direct 30-minute ride to/from downtown San Francisco; SFO BART station is outside the international terminal. Door

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and LA. Getting Around BART Best for... travel between downtown and the Mission, East Bay and SFO. Throughout this book, venues readily accessible by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit; www.bart.gov; 4am-midnight Mon-Fri, 6am-midnight Sat, 8am-midnight Sun) are denoted by followed by the name of the nearest BART station

Behind the cloud: the untold story of how Salesforce.com went from idea to billion-dollar company--and revolutionized an industry

by Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler · 19 Nov 2009 · 307pp · 17,123 words

a chain of women’s clothing stores, and my grandfather, an innovative and unusual attorney, run his own practice and create BART, the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system. My obsession with software began when I wandered into a computer lab in high school. I would beg my grandmother to drive me to