Author: United States. Bureau of Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Highway Finance, 1945-1950
Author: United States. Bureau of Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Interstate
Author: Mark H. RosePublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572337834
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and communities as the urban expressways of the highway network destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities. Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s, especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement, an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging, and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid research by two well-known scholars.
Selected Bibliography on Highway Finance
Author: United States. Bureau of Public RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Interstate
Author: Mark H. RosePublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496714
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
An expansion of the 1979 edition, which covered 1941-56, examining the recent shift of power in the politics of the interstate-and-defense system, from the national to the local level, and from scientific to political elites. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Public Roads
Author: Highway Statistics
Author: The Financing of Highways by Counties and Local Rural Governments
Author: A Proposed System of Highway Financing for the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Highways, Streets and BridgesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Financing of Highways by Counties and Local Rural Governments
Author: Public Roads BureauFinancing California's Highways
Author: California. Legislature. Joint Fact-Finding Committee on HighwaysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description