Author: New York (State). Office of the State Deputy Comptroller for the City of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Review of the Proposed Financial Plan and Capital Program for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Author: New York (State). Office of the State Deputy Comptroller for the City of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
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.
A Checklist of Official Publications of the State of New York
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Review of Giuliani Plan to Merge Police
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on General Oversight, Investigations, and the Resolution of Failed Financial InstitutionsPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: New York (State). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Office of the Inspector General. Management Advisory BoardPublisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The New York Red Book
Author: MTA Board Action Items
Author: New York (State). Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Report on Economic Conditions in New York City
Author: Sustainable Mass Transit
Author: Thomas AbdallahPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0443152721
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation, Second Edition highlights the many sustainability solutions and alternatives to fossil fuel usage including renewable energy and efficiency in mass transit, as well as the conservation of materials, water, and air and the overall health of communities. This new edition will update the reader on developments in the field since 2017 and advancements in sustainability solutions. It explores how Environmental Management System frameworks improve environmental performance in the operations, maintenance, design, rehabilitation, and expansion of a mass transportation system. The book covers the numerous types of mass transit systems, looking closely at all their key functions, including operations, maintenance, development, design, building, and retrofitting. It explores the mitigation measures that reduce or eliminate negative environmental impacts, including green infrastructure, materials conservation, ecological conservation, and more. It covers energy, greenhouse gas emissions, toxic pollution and other significant environmental impacts, recycling, and more. It also examines organizational best practices and environmental regulatory constraints and life cycle assessments, describing which sustainable elements can be added while rehabilitating or expanding a mass transportation infrastructure or ancillary facility. The book concludes with a look at forthcoming sustainable initiatives that will enhance mass transit systems. - Contains case studies from around the world, including several new case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia - Thoroughly updated with four new chapters on The Sustainable Mass Transit Revolution, Relevance of Mass Transit, Environmental Professionals in Transportation, and Reimagining Sustainable Mass Transit - Includes a new companion website with assessment questions for educators, image files and video presentations - Shows how teams from different fields, entities, agencies and cities can work together to solve complex sustainability challenges
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