Author: William Raphael KurtzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Trend Toward Public Ownership of Urban Mass Transportation with Special Emphasis on the History of the Chicago Transit Authority
Author: William Raphael KurtzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Urban Mass Transportation, 1962
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Great American Transit Disaster
Author: Nicholas Dagen BloomPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226824411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way. Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.
Conference on New Approaches to Urban Transportation
Author: Governance of Public Enterprise
Author: Neil W. HamiltonPublisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Metropolitan Transit Research
Author: Werner W. SchroederPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Urban Mass Transportation Abstracts
Author: The Role of the Federal Government in Urban Mass Transportation
Author: James B. MeanorPublisher:
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Category : Federal-city relations
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Urban Transit
Author: Stephen A. RubenfeldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collective bargaining
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Urban Mass Transportation 1963
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on HousingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description