ABSTRACT
An $885 000 lawsuit was filed, and leveled at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system management, by three of its former engineer-employees. Holger Hjortsvang says that on March 2, 1972, B. R. Stokes, then BART's general manager, summarily fired him and two other employees, accusing all three of disloyalty. The contact with Helix, says Hjortsvang, was a last-ditch attempt to attract BART management's attention to a situation that, in the opinion of the three engineers, was threatening the successful completion of the system. The worst thing that could happen to their proposals, Hjortsvang says he then felt, would be for Helix to "go. public" with them. Roy W. Anderson served as state director, president, and vice president of the Diablo Chapter of the California Society of Professional Engineers (CSPEs) from 1964 to 1972. He was also the first chairman of CSPE's Committee on Transportation Safety.
