Author: Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall
Publisher:
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Abraham Johnson Falick
Publisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Author: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Author: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Los Angeles County Transportation Commission
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Category : Local transit
Languages : en
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Author: Paul Sorensen
Publisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833046462
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 639

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Los Angeles has the worst traffic congestion in the country. Excessive traffic congestion detracts from quality of life, is economically wasteful and environmentally damaging, and exacerbates social-justice concerns. The authors of this book recommend strategies for reducing congestion in Los Angeles County that could be implemented and produce significant improvements within about five years.

Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Community Analysis Bureau
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Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Community Analysis and Planning Division
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Category : Demographic surveys
Languages : en
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Author: Jonathan Richmond
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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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.