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The Great American Transit Disaster A Century Of Austerity Autocentric Planning And White Flight Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Name: The Great American Transit Disaster A Century Of Austerity Autocentric Planning And White Flight Nicholas Dagen Bloom
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The Great American Transit Disaster A Century Of Austerity Autocentric Planning And White Flight Nicholas Dagen Bloom instant download after payment.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 12.57 MB

Pages: 363

Author: Nicholas Dagen Bloom

ISBN: 9780226824406, 0226824403

Language: English

Year: 2023

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The Great American Transit Disaster A Century Of Austerity Autocentric Planning And White Flight Nicholas Dagen Bloom by Nicholas Dagen Bloom 9780226824406, 0226824403 instant download after payment.

A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit.

Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way.

Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.