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Author : José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Private Toll Roads in the United States written by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. J. H. Starks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Toll Roads in the U.S.A. written by H. J. H. Starks and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Poole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655760X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Rethinking America's Highways written by Robert W. Poole and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
Author : United States. Public Roads Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Toll Roads and Free Roads written by United States. Public Roads Administration and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Lovelace
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807847
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Mount Mitchell written by Jeff Lovelace and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short line mountain railroads are often miracles of construction. Built primarily for shipping logs, the Mount Mitchell Railroad was no exception. Within a span of 21 miles, the road climbed 3,500 feet, but utilized only three trestles and nine switchbacks, while maintaining a grade of five and a half percent. In this richly illustrated work the author brings to life a time when Mount Mitchell was dressed in virgin timber. Access to the mountain, located in Western North Carolina, was slow and difficult; but after completion of the railroad, a timbering industry was born. The railroad also provided tourists with scenic trips along its rugged contours.
Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820330280
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Motoring written by John A. Jakle and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motoring unmasks the forces that shape the American driving experience--commercial, aesthetic, cultural, mechanical--as it takes a timely look back at our historically unconditional love of motor travel. Focusing on recreational travel between 1900 and 1960, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle cover dozens of topics related to drivers, cars, and highways and explain how they all converge to uphold that illusory notion of release and rejuvenation we call the "open road." Jakle and Sculle have collaborated on five previous books on the history, culture, and landscape of the American road. Here, with an emphasis on the driver's perspective, they discuss garages and gas stations, roadside tourist attractions, freeways and toll roads, truck stops, bus travel, the rise of the convenience store, and much more. All the while, the authors make us think about aspects of driving that are often taken for granted: how, for instance, the many lodging and food options along our highways reinforce the connection between driving and "freedom" and how, by enabling greater speeds, highway engineers helped to stoke motorists' "blessed fantasy of flight." Although driving originally celebrated freedom and touted a common experience, it has increasingly become a highly regulated, isolated activity. The motive behind America's first embrace of the automobile--individual prerogative--still substantially obscures this reality. "Americans did not have the automobile imposed on them," say the authors. Jakle and Sculle ask why some of the early prophetic warnings about our car culture went unheeded and why the arguments of its promoters resonated so persuasively. Today, the automobile is implicated in any number of environmental, even social, problems. As the wisdom of our dependence on automobile travel has come into serious question, reassessment of how we first became that way is more important than ever.
Author : David S. Kriger
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 0309097762
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Estimating Toll Road Demand and Revenue written by David S. Kriger and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2006 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mitchell E. Dakelman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439631840
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Pennsylvania Turnpike written by Mitchell E. Dakelman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See how the Pennsylvania Turnpike proved the doubters wrong and came to be known as the World's Greatest Highway. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the best-known highways in the United States. Most Pennsylvania Turnpike travelers are unaware that its construction was inspired by the route of the never-completed South Pennsylvania Railroad. In the 1930s, men of great vision conceived, planned, and built the nation's first long-distance superhighway using the abandoned railroad's partially finished tunnels as its foundation. The Pennsylvania Turnpike draws from the extensive photograph collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were taken by photographers hired by both the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and its contractors, and most have never been published previously. Originally predicted to be a financial failure, the project wound up being a tremendous success and, eventually was expanded and improved, laying the groundwork for the nation's Interstate Highway System.
Author : William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316218545
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Blue Highways written by William Least Heat-Moon and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.
Author : Texas
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Transportation Code written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Official Good Roads Year Book of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Newhall Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Highway Laws of the United States written by Arthur Newhall Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angus Kress Gillespie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781978835993
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, Second Edition written by Angus Kress Gillespie and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After thirty years, two American Studies professors from Rutgers University are still looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike-- that "ugly icon, '' America's "widest and most traveled'' road--that has found its way into the minds, if not the hearts, of artists and drivers alike. From the gray-flannel-suit diligence that built it, to the mixture of necessity, practicality and venality that maintains it, the New Jersey Turnpike endures as an enthralling though unlikely subject.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Official Good Roads Year Book of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book United States Code written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erik Slotboom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974160511
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Dallas-Fort Worth Freeways written by Erik Slotboom and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Dallas-Fort Worth freeways and associated landmarks and events
Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054754913X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Big Roads written by Earl Swift and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the twists and turns of one of America’s great infrastructure projects with this “engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system” (Los Angeles Times). It’s become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and roadside rest stops, a familiar route for commuters and vacationing families. But during the twentieth century, the interstate highway system dramatically changed the face of our nation. These interconnected roads—over 47,000 miles of them—are man-made wonders, economic pipelines, agents of sprawl, uniquely American symbols of escape and freedom, and an unrivaled public works accomplishment. Though officially named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower, this network of roadways has origins that reach all the way back to the World War I era, and The Big Roads—“the first thorough history of the expressway system” (The Washington Post)—tells the full story of how they came to be. From the speed demon who inspired a primitive web of dirt auto trails to the largely forgotten technocrats who planned the system years before Ike reached the White House to the city dwellers who resisted the concrete juggernaut when it bore down on their neighborhoods, this book reveals both the massive scale of this government engineering project, and the individual lives that have been transformed by it. A fast-paced history filled with fascinating detours, “the book is a road geek’s treasure—and everyone who travels the highways ought to know these stories” (Kirkus Reviews).
