Express Highways in the United States
Author : United States. Public Roads Administration
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Express highways
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Author : United States. Public Roads Administration
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Express highways
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Author : United States. Public Roads Administration
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1945
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Author : United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Roads
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Author : United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Express highways
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Contains state maps detailing the express highways in each state.
Author : Robert W. Poole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022655760X
A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
Author : Mark H. Rose
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : Mark H. Rose
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780870496714
An expansion of the 1979 edition, which covered 1941-56, examining the recent shift of power in the politics of the interstate-and-defense system, from the national to the local level, and from scientific to political elites. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Roads
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Author : William Kaszynski
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786408221
Minnesota-based writer and photographer Kazynski traces the transformation of the US from a network of places connected by rutted wagon trails to a maze of highways connected to other highways. He describes and illustrates road and bridge construction and the new roadside culture that threw up motels, restaurants, gas stations, and scenic perspectives.
Author : Mark H. Rose
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1572337834
This new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and communities as the urban expressways of the highway network destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities. Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s, especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement, an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging, and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid research by two well-known scholars.