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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780801453663
- Book Title
- Last Subway : the Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Transportation, Social Science, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Public Transportation, General, Sociology / Urban
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 360 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801453666
ISBN-13
9780801453663
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038637101
Product Key Features
Book Title
Last Subway : the Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Public Transportation, General, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-019068
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
In this highly recommended work, Plotch ably leads the reader through the tortured and convoluted history of the effort to build a Second Avenue subway... In Last Subway , Plotch unravels the twisted strands of state and local politics, municipal financing, and special interest groups to tell a compelling story., What makes Last Subway such an impressive book is the storytelling through different key figures in New York City over the last century. Plotch does an excellent job of personalizing transportation history through the description of significant planners and politicians., He has written this fascinating book called The Last Subway I really like the way your book opens the window on the MTA in a way that loops in the casual reader in addition to the transit expert., I recommend this book to a vast audience: not only transit gurus but also academics, young planners, and policymakers. They will all at least begin to understand how politicians and their personalities influence the administrative structure and the ebbs and flows of large project implementation, Last Subway is two books in one. On one level, it tells the story of a specific project: the decades-long effort to build a subway under Second Avenue in New York City. At a second level, it illustrates the challenges facing planners everywhere as they seek to build major public works in a country increasingly sceptical of the costs - financial and otherwise - of such megaprojects. The book succeeds impressively at both tasks, making it instructive reading for those who would understand why America struggles to build big things., He has written this fascinating book called Last Subway I really like the way your book opens the window on the MTA in a way that loops in the casual reader in addition to the transit expert., Once again, author Philip Plotch has crafted a compelling story from raw material of infrastructure politics. This time, the setting is decades of events leading to the opening of Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway in Manhattan. Plotch cooked up a rich stew of infrastructure issues: technical complexity, large investments, discord among interest groups, prideful bureaucrats, scheming politicians, and more., In this highly recommended work, Plotch ably leads the reader through the tortured and convoluted history of the effort to build a Second Avenue subway. In Last Subway , Plotch unravels the twisted strands of state and local politics, municipal financing, and special interest groups to tell a compelling story., Last Subway is two books in one. On one level, it tells the story of a specific project: the decades-long effort to build a subway under Second Avenue in New York City. At a second level, it illustrates the challenges facing planners everywhere as they seek to build major public works in a country increasingly sceptical of the costs - financial and otherwise - of such megaprojects. The book succeeds impressively at both tasks, making it instructive reading for those who would understand why America struggles to build big things.
Dewey Decimal
388.4/2097471
Table Of Content
Introducrion: Long Wait for a Train 1. From a Compact City into a Metropolis 2. An Empty Promise 3. The Billionaire's Ambitions 4. Construction Begins and Construction Ends 5. Saving the Subway 6. Planning from the Bottom Up 7. A Twenty-First-Century Subway 8. Building a Subway and Unleashing the Plagues 9. Andrew Cuomo's Finish Line Conclusion: Delays Ahead
Synopsis
Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. He explains how a series of uninformed and self-serving elected officials have fostered false expectations about the city's ability to adequately maintain and significantly expand its transit system. Since the 1920s, New Yorkers have been promised a Second Avenue subway. When the first of four planned phases opened on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 2017, subway service improved for tens of thousands of people. Riders have been delighted with the clean, quiet, and spacious new stations. Yet these types of accomplishments will not be repeated unless New Yorkers learn from their century-long struggle. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects. However, it is also a cautionary tale for cities. Plotch reveals how false promises, redirected funds and political ambitions have derailed subway improvements. Given the ridiculously high cost of building new subways in New York and their lengthy construction period, the Second Avenue subway (if it is ever completed) will be the last subway built in New York for generations to come.
LC Classification Number
HE4491.N65P58 2020
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Copyright Date
2020
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