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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Public Policy Impact Study
Author: Los Angeles County Transportation Commission Public Policy Impact Study (1977 - 1980)
Author: Innovation in Public Transportation
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Urban Transportation Abstracts
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Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Urban Mass Transportation Abstracts
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Re-evaluation Report of the November 1987 Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report on the Los Angeles Rapid Transit Project-Metro Rail for a Proposed Change in the Designation of the Locally Preferred Alternative to the Pico/San Vicente Alternative with Stations at Olympic/Crenshaw and Pico/San Vicente
Author: Los Angeles County Transportation CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
UMTA Abstracts
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Private Sector Involvement in Urban Transportation
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Los Angeles Rail Rapid Transit Project, Metro Rail
Author: Transport of Delight
Author: Jonathan RichmondPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
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.
