Straphanger

saving our cities and ourselves from the automobile

Straphanger

saving our cities and ourselves from the automobile
Taras Grescoe
Book - 2012

"The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering--a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford insurance, or too decrepit to get behind the wheel of a car. Indeed, a century of auto-centric culture and city planning has left most of the country with public transportation that is underfunded, ill maintained, and ill conceived. But as the demand for petroleum is fast outpacing the world's supply, a revolution in transportation is under way."--

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37413314068802 Disponible Non-fiction 388.4 GRESCOE
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grescoe, Taras
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York : Times Books, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
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300 |a x, 322 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
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505 0 |a Shanghai, China -- Confessions of a straphanger -- The subway that time forgot : New York, New York -- Only connect : Los Angeles, California -- The highway to hell : Phoenix, Arizona -- The salvation of Paris : Paris, France -- The Copenhagen Syndrome : Copenhagen, Denmark -- Fools and roads : Moscow, Russia -- City of trains : Tokyo, Japan -- The revenge of the loser cruiser : Bogotá, Colombia -- Good bones : Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia -- The next great city : Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- Montreal, Quebec. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-307) and index. 
650 0 |a Local transit  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a Local transit  |x Ridership. 
650 0 |a Choice of transportation. 
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