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Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mass Transit written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Richmond
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Total Pages : 526 pages
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Download or read book Transport of Delight written by Jonathan Richmond and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport of Delight is a true interdisciplinary work, and includes a thorough analytical assessment of the Los Angeles rail program, with a focus on the Long Beach Blue Line light rail-the first of the new projects to go ahead. En route, it shows that ridership forecasting for this project was not only biased and statistically invalid, but in fact done to justify decisions made on other grounds. This unusual book develops a novel theory of myth to explain the construction of rail passenger transit in Los Angeles when it had little to offer the needs of a dispersed autopolis, whose urgent but dispersed public transportation needs could have been better served by developing the regional bus system. The author conducted interviews and performed the detective work necessary to reveal an unlikely logic that held together a network of symbols, images, and metaphors that together present powerful mythical beliefs in the guise of truth. A political analysis shows how consensus was reached to proceed with the light rail to Long Beach, but political explanations are ultimately found lacking, because they cannot explain why decision-makers would want to put the rail in place. It is only when provocative metaphors-of the need to connect communities and to restore a mythical balance to a dysfunctional transportation system-and symbols-of escape from the pressure cooker of poverty, of urban success, power and, indeed sexual acumen-are surfaced, that we realize that Los Angeles' Transport of Delight is the result of the very human need to transcend complexity by providing mythical creations that appear to offer easy answers to society's deepest problems.
Author : Ethan N. Elkind
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957202
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Railtown written by Ethan N. Elkind and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a result of pressure from local leaders, particularly with the election of Tom Bradley as mayor in 1973, the Los Angeles Metro Rail gradually took shape in the consummate car city. Railtown presents the history of this system by drawing on archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with many of the key players to provide critical behind-the-scenes accounts of the people and forces that shaped the system. Ethan Elkind brings this important story to life by showing how ambitious local leaders zealously advocated for rail transit and ultimately persuaded an ambivalent electorate and federal leaders to support their vision. Although Metro Rail is growing in ridership and political importance, with expansions in the pipeline, Elkind argues that local leaders will need to reform the rail planning and implementation process to avoid repeating past mistakes and to ensure that Metro Rail supports a burgeoning demand for transit-oriented neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This engaging history of Metro Rail provides lessons for how the American car-dominated cities of today can reinvent themselves as thriving railtowns of tomorrow.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
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Total Pages : 1306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Public Mass Transportation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Transportation written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles P. Hobbs
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852002
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Transportation in Los Angeles written by Charles P. Hobbs and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles transportation's epic scale--its iconic freeways, Union Station, Los Angeles International Airport and the giant ports of its shores--has obscured many offbeat transit stories of moxie and eccentricity. Triumphs such as the Vincent Thomas Bridge and Mac Barnes's Ground Link buspool have existed alongside such flops as the Santa Monica Freeway Diamond Lane and the Oxnard-Los Angeles Caltrain commuter rail. The City of Angels lacks a propeller-driven monorail and a freeway in the paved bed of the Los Angeles River, but not for a lack of public promoters. Horace Dobbins built the elevated California Cycleway in Pasadena, and Mike Kadletz deployed the Pink Buses for Orange County kids hitchhiking to the beach. Join Charles P. Hobbs as he recalls these and other lost episodes of LA-area transportation lore.
Author : Public Technology, inc
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Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Transit Actions written by Public Technology, inc and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summaries of innovative programs with transit agency contacts; background statistics on agencies, including zone or flat fares, revenue source analysis.
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Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Public Policy Impact Study (1977 - 1980) written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
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Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Surface Transportation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jake Berman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226829804
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Lost Subways of North America written by Jake Berman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual exploration of the transit histories of twenty-three US and Canadian cities. Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience—being stuck in traffic. But things weren’t always like this. Why is it that the mass transit systems of most cities in the United States and Canada are now utterly inadequate? The Lost Subways of North America offers a new way to consider this eternal question, with a strikingly visual—and fun—journey through past, present, and unbuilt urban transit. Using meticulous archival research, cartographer and artist Jake Berman has successfully plotted maps of old train networks covering twenty-three North American metropolises, ranging from New York City’s Civil War–era plan for a steam-powered subway under Fifth Avenue to the ultramodern automated Vancouver SkyTrain and the thousand-mile electric railway system of pre–World War II Los Angeles. He takes us through colorful maps of old, often forgotten streetcar lines, lost ideas for never-built transit, and modern rail systems—drawing us into the captivating transit histories of US and Canadian cities. Berman combines vintage styling with modern printing technology to create a sweeping visual history of North American public transit and urban development. With more than one hundred original maps, accompanied by essays on each city’s urban development, this book presents a fascinating look at North American rapid transit systems.
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Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sy Adler
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Dynamics of Innovation in Urban Transit written by Sy Adler and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Public Works Committee
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Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Mass Transportation, Hearings Before ..., 93-2 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works Committee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Commerce
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Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Railroad Corridors written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Transportation and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 1430 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Public Policy Impact Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard L. Hyink
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
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Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Politics and Government in California written by Bernard L. Hyink and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
