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Author : Dudley F. Pegrum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Los Angeles Transportation Problem written by Dudley F. Pegrum and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 52 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 : Ethan N. Elkind
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520278275
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
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.
Author : Christof Spieler
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610919033
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
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.
Author : Jonathan Richmond
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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 : David Brodsly
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520045460
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (454 download)
Download or read book L. A. Freeway written by David Brodsly and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Rural transportation problems as they relate to agriculture written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan Landau
Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 0899976573
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Car-Free Los Angeles and Southern California written by Nathan Landau and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time has come for Car-Free Los Angeles and Southern California. The peril of global climate change dominates the headlines. In California almost 40% of greenhouse gases come from transportation. More and more people--especially young people--are realizing the current approach to mobility is not sustainable. Car-Free Los Angeles and Southern California is designed as a complete guide to a car-free vacation in Southern California, from the time travelers land or arrive until the time they leave. Car-Free Los Angeles and Southern California reveals how to get from the airport--or the train station or bus station--into town. For Los Angeles or Southern California residents, this book tells how to plug into the transit network and start traveling car-free to the local attractions. Contrary to old stereotypes, Southern California is a great place to travel car-free. It has a lovely train that travels along the coast. It has a ferry across the water to a town with a limit on the number of cars--Avalon on Catalina Island. There's a beautiful city that gives you discounts for traveling car-free. Los Angeles' buses go to the front door of world class museums, theatres, and shops. Disneyland will shuttle travelers from motels to the park. The book lists good places to stay that are transit accessible. Car-Free Los Angeles and Southern California discloses the terrific things to see and do in Southern California with detailed information on how to get there. Whether it's sightseeing, shopping, eating, visiting museums or something else altogether--Car-Free Los Angeles and Southern California will get you there.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The National Highway System and Ancillary Issues Relating to Highway and Transit Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Urban Mass Transportation, 1961 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Future Directions in Social Security written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Future Directions in Social Security: Impact of high cost of living written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Transportation Plan for the National Capital Region written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the D.C. mass transportation plans. Includes Interim Report of the Joint Commission To Study Passenger Carrier Facilities and Services in the Washington Metropolitan Area, Feb. 1956 (p. 309-362)
Author : California. Legislature. Assembly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Journal of the Assembly During the ... Session of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 2240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book California Outlook, a Progressive Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)
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:
Author : United States Congress House. Banking and Currency Committee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1962 written by United States Congress House. Banking and Currency Committee and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
