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Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422320340
Author : United States,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic government information
ISBN : PSU:000058938720
Author : United States House of Representatives,Committee on Transportation and (house),United S Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1712518445
Celebrating 50 years: the Eisenhower interstate highway system: hearing before the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 27, 2006.
Author : United States. Congress,United States House of Representatives,Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1984268112
Celebrating 50 years : the Eisenhower interstate highway system : hearing before the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, June 27, 2006.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Roads
ISBN : UCAL:$B643458
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03111362F
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Legislative oversight
ISBN : PURD:32754075474175
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050441026
Author : Megan Kimble
Publisher : Crown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593443798
An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward “Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF History Every major American city has a highway tearing through its center. Seventy years ago, planners sold these highways as progress, essential to our future prosperity. The automobile promised freedom, and highways were going to take us there. Instead, they divided cities, displaced people from their homes, chained us to our cars, and locked us into a high-emissions future. And the more highways we built, the worse traffic got. Nowhere is this more visible than in Texas. In Houston, Dallas, and Austin, residents and activists are fighting against massive, multi-billion-dollar highway expansions that will claim thousands of homes and businesses, entrenching segregation and sprawl. In City Limits, journalist Megan Kimble weaves together the origins of urban highways with the stories of ordinary people impacted by our failed transportation system. In Austin, hundreds of families will lose child care if a preschool is demolished to expand Interstate 35. In Houston, a young Black woman will lose her brand-new home to a new lane on Interstate 10—just blocks away from where a seventy-four-year-old nurse lost her home in the 1960s when that same highway was built. And in Dallas, an urban planner has improbably found himself at the center of a national conversation about highway removal. What if, instead of building our aging roads wider and higher, we removed those highways altogether? It’s been done before, first in San Francisco and, more recently, in Rochester, where Kimble traces how highway removal has brought new life to a divided city. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, City Limits exposes the enormous social and environmental costs wrought by our allegiance to a life of increasing speed and dispersion, and brings to light the people who are fighting for a more sustainable, connected future.
Author : Peter H. Schuck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691168531
"From healthcare to workplace conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. The most alarming consequence of ineffective policies, in addition to unrealized social goals, is the growing threat to the government's democratic legitimacy. Understanding why government fails so often--and how it might become more effective--is an urgent responsibility of citizenship. In this book, lawyer and political scientist Peter Schuck provides a wide range of examples and an enormous body of evidence to explain why so many domestic policies go awry--and how to right the foundering ship of state.Schuck argues that Washington's failures are due not to episodic problems or partisan bickering, but rather to deep structural flaws that undermine every administration, Democratic and Republican. These recurrent weaknesses include unrealistic goals, perverse incentives, poor and distorted information, systemic irrationality, rigidity and lack of credibility, a mediocre bureaucracy, powerful and inescapable markets, and the inherent limits of law. To counteract each of these problems, Schuck proposes numerous achievable reforms, from avoiding moral hazard in student loan, mortgage, and other subsidy programs, to empowering consumers of public services, simplifying programs and testing them for cost-effectiveness, and increasing the use of "big data." The book also examines successful policies--including the G.I. Bill, the Voting Rights Act, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and airline deregulation--to highlight the factors that made them work.An urgent call for reform, Why Government Fails So Often is essential reading for anyone curious about why government is in such disrepute and how it can do better"--
Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : HMH
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547549132
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).
Author : United States. Public Roads Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Roads
ISBN : WISC:89090507302
Author : Alfred Goldberg
Publisher : Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D02370380C
The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.
Author : Dye Management Group, Inc
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309155168
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 677: Development of Levels of Service for the Interstate Highway System examines a level-of-service-based approach to describing the performance of Interstate Highway System (IHS) assets. The report also includes a template and process that state departments of transportation (DOTs) may use to implement this approach for managing their IHS assets. The appendices to NCHRP Report 677 were published on a CD-ROM that is included with the report. Titles of the appendices are as follows: Appendix A: State-of-the-Practice Research; Appendix B: Development of Levels of Service for the IHS. The CD-ROM is also available for download from TRB's website as an ISO image.
Author : American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Publisher : American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Express highways
ISBN : NWU:35556025747411
This report, prepared by the Public Works Historical Society with some minor editing by AASHTO, outlines the origins of the Interstate and Defense Highway System, the early years of its implementation, and the challenges and adjustments required in its completion.