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The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight

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By (author): Nicholas Dagen Bloom Sara Cook

A potent re-examination of Americas 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 conspiracyall 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 todays conversations about public transportation funding. See more
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  • Weight: 626g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 03 May 2023
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780226824406

About Nicholas Dagen BloomSara Cook

Nicholas Dagen Bloom is professor of urban policy and planning and director of the Master of Urban Planning Program at Hunter College. He is the author of numerous books including How States Shaped Postwar America also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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