Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Second Avenue Subway in the Borough of Manhattan, New York County
Author: Second Avenue Subway in the Borough of Manhattan, New York County
Author: Last Subway
Author: Philip Mark PlotchPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. He explains how a series of uninformed and self-serving elected officials have fostered false expectations about the city's ability to adequately maintain and significantly expand its transit system. Since the 1920s, New Yorkers have been promised a Second Avenue subway. When the first of four planned phases opened on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 2017, subway service improved for tens of thousands of people. Riders have been delighted with the clean, quiet, and spacious new stations. Yet these types of accomplishments will not be repeated unless New Yorkers learn from their century-long struggle. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects. However, it is also a cautionary tale for cities. Plotch reveals how false promises, redirected funds and political ambitions have derailed subway improvements. Given the ridiculously high cost of building new subways in New York and their lengthy construction period, the Second Avenue subway (if it is ever completed) will be the last subway built in New York for generations to come.
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Access to the Region's Core in Hudson County, New Jersey and New York County, New York
Author: Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement in Case 01-E-0377
Author: New York (State). Public Service CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power-plants
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Engineering News and American Contract Journal
Author: Engineering News
Author: Route 9A Reconstruction Project, Battery Place to 59th St., New York County
Author: Rapid Transit in New York City and in Other Great Cities
Author: New York Chamber of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description