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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030191621
Author : Southern California Rapid Transit District
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UCAL:C3254780
Author : Southern California Rapid Transit District
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UCAL:C3254652
Author : Southern California Rapid Transit District
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UCLA:L0074045931
Author : Southern California Rapid Transit District
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Environmental impact statements
ISBN : UCLA:L0069181535
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Environmental impact statements
ISBN : OCLC:82948317
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Environmental impact statements
ISBN : UCLA:L0055052583
Author : Ethan N. Elkind
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520278271
The familiar image of Los Angeles as a metropolis built for the automobile is crumbling. Traffic, air pollution, and sprawl motivated citizens to support urban rail as an alternative to driving, and the city has started to reinvent itself by developing compact neighborhoods adjacent to transit. As a result of pressure from local leaders, particularly with the election of Tom Bradley as mayor in 1973, the Los Angeles Metro Rail gradually took shape in the consummate car city. Railtown presents the history of this system by drawing on archival documents, contemporary news accounts, and interviews with many of the key players to provide critical behind-the-scenes accounts of the people and forces that shaped the system. Ethan Elkind brings this important story to life by showing how ambitious local leaders zealously advocated for rail transit and ultimately persuaded an ambivalent electorate and federal leaders to support their vision. Although Metro Rail is growing in ridership and political importance, with expansions in the pipeline, Elkind argues that local leaders will need to reform the rail planning and implementation process to avoid repeating past mistakes and to ensure that Metro Rail supports a burgeoning demand for transit-oriented neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This engaging history of Metro Rail provides lessons for how the American car-dominated cities of today can reinvent themselves as thriving railtowns of tomorrow.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Environmental impact statements
ISBN : NWU:35556030191704
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556036098861
Author : Jonathan Richmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114279974
Transport of Delight is a true interdisciplinary work, and includes a thorough analytical assessment of the Los Angeles rail program, with a focus on the Long Beach Blue Line light rail-the first of the new projects to go ahead. En route, it shows that ridership forecasting for this project was not only biased and statistically invalid, but in fact done to justify decisions made on other grounds. This unusual book develops a novel theory of myth to explain the construction of rail passenger transit in Los Angeles when it had little to offer the needs of a dispersed autopolis, whose urgent but dispersed public transportation needs could have been better served by developing the regional bus system. The author conducted interviews and performed the detective work necessary to reveal an unlikely logic that held together a network of symbols, images, and metaphors that together present powerful mythical beliefs in the guise of truth. A political analysis shows how consensus was reached to proceed with the light rail to Long Beach, but political explanations are ultimately found lacking, because they cannot explain why decision-makers would want to put the rail in place. It is only when provocative metaphors-of the need to connect communities and to restore a mythical balance to a dysfunctional transportation system-and symbols-of escape from the pressure cooker of poverty, of urban success, power and, indeed sexual acumen-are surfaced, that we realize that Los Angeles' Transport of Delight is the result of the very human need to transcend complexity by providing mythical creations that appear to offer easy answers to society's deepest problems.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Methane
ISBN : PURD:32754076774003
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030206874
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030606172
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : UIUC:30112104409864