Person:Walter Douglas (7)

Walter S Douglas

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m. 6 May 1938

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Name^[1]	Walter S Douglas
Alt Name^[1]	Douger _____
Gender	Male
Birth^[3]	22 Jan 1912	Cranford, Union, New Jersey, United States
Marriage	6 May 1938	to Jean G Moment
Death^[1]^[2]	15 Mar 1985	Jamestown, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Jean Moment Douglas, formerly of Plainfield, in Home News Tribune. (New Jersey, United States)
29 Nov 2007.

Walter S Douglas (Douger) predeceased his wife who died on 18 Nov 2007.
↑ Walter S. Douglas; Transit Architect, in Los Angeles, California, United States. Los Angeles Times
23 Mar 1985.

Walter S. Douglas, a designer of urban mass transportation systems, including San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit, has died at his Jamestown, R.I., home. He was 73. The cause of death was not announced.

He was the retired board chairman of Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas, a New York-based firm of engineering consultants that he joined as a structural engineer in 1939.

In 1953 Douglas did the original report for the San Francisco Bay Area Commission that was the basis for the three-county, $1.3-billion BART system that opened in 1972. He also became a member of BART's joint venture board of control and helped decide policy and design matters.

He also helped design transit systems in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis.

In 1975 Douglas was named one of the "Top 10 Construction Men" of the last half-century by the American Society of Civil Engineers. He died March 15.
↑ Walter Spaulding Douglas by Thomas Kuesel, in Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering. (National Academy Press, 1989)
Pages 124 - 131, 1989.

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1384&page=124