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Railtown

Author : Ethan N. Elkind
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520278275
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Railtown written by Ethan N. Elkind and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 314 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.

Trains, Buses, People

Author : Christof Spieler
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610919033
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Trains, Buses, People written by Christof Spieler and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the best transit cities in the US? The best Bus Rapid Transit lines? The most useless rail transit lines? The missed opportunities? In the US, the 25 largest metropolitan areas and many smaller cities have fixed guideway transit—rail or bus rapid transit. Nearly all of them are talking about expanding. Yet discussions about transit are still remarkably unsophisticated. To build good transit, the discussion needs to focus on what matters—quality of service (not the technology that delivers it), all kinds of transit riders, the role of buildings, streets and sidewalks, and, above all, getting transit in the right places. Christof Spieler has spent over a decade advocating for transit as a writer, community leader, urban planner, transit board member, and enthusiast. He strongly believes that just about anyone—regardless of training or experience—can identify what makes good transit with the right information. In the fun and accessible Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit, Spieler shows how cities can build successful transit. He profiles the 47 metropolitan areas in the US that have rail transit or BRT, using data, photos, and maps for easy comparison. The best and worst systems are ranked and Spieler offers analysis of how geography, politics, and history complicate transit planning. He shows how the unique circumstances of every city have resulted in very different transit systems. Using appealing visuals, Trains, Buses, People is intended for non-experts—it will help any citizen, professional, or policymaker with a vested interest evaluate a transit proposal and understand what makes transit effective. While the book is built on data, it has a strong point of view. Spieler takes an honest look at what makes good and bad transit and is not afraid to look at what went wrong. He explains broad concepts, but recognizes all of the technical, geographical, and political difficulties of building transit in the real world. In the end,Trains, Buses, People shows that it is possible with the right tools to build good transit.

Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1962

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1962 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Transportation Policy

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book National Transportation Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

National Transportation Policy

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book National Transportation Policy written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Mass Transportation--1962, Hearings Before a Subcommitte of ..., 87-2 ..., April 24, 25, 26, and 27, 1962

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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National Transportation Policy. Preliminary Draft

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
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Download or read book National Transportation Policy. Preliminary Draft written by United States. Congress. Senate. Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 2164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Mass Transportation

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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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:

Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1962

Author : United States Congress House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
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Urban Mass Transportation, 1962

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Urban Mass Transportation, 1962 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bus Rapid Transit Practitioner's Guide

Author : Kittelson & Associates
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 030909884X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Bus Rapid Transit Practitioner's Guide written by Kittelson & Associates and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2007 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Planning framework -- Estimating BRT ridership -- Component features, costs, and impacts -- System packaging, integration, and assessment -- Land development guidelines.

Transport of Delight

Author : Jonathan Richmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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.

Mass Transportation, 1969

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Mass Transportation, 1969 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1990

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1390 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations for fiscal year 1990 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1990: Department of Transportation, General Accounting Office

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Download or read book Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1990: Department of Transportation, General Accounting Office written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: