mass transit

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  4/27/2023
  

  Who's Really to Blame for America's Lousy Transit Systems?

  Historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom says that American politicians, especially at the municipal level, made a series of choices that diverted resources from mass transit to auto transportation. Neither racism nor the market nor secret conspiracies by industry made these choices inevitable.

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• SOURCE: Noema
  9/22/2022
  

  The Lost Art of Maintenance

  The struggles of the New York transit system to preserve the useful life of its train cars, and to prevent problems before they occur, reflects deep and troubling changes in society's relationship to infrastructure and labor power. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/14/2022
  

  Rational or Not, Crime Fears Threaten the Subway with a Death Spiral

  Can studying past crime panics help cities convince riders to use mass transit systems when fear of crime is on the rise? 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  11/29/2021
  

  New Book Revisits the Debate over NYC's Iconic Subway Maps

  For fans of transit cartography, the New York Subway Map Debate of April 20, 1978, is remembered as a legendary showdown between two irreconcilable approaches.

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• SOURCE: Washingtonian
  11/10/2021
  

  What You Think You Know About DC's Metro Skipping Georgetown is Wrong

  by Luke Mullins

  Zachary Schrag, author of the definitive book on the DC Metro system, says that the legend of affluent community opposition in the 1960s is a just-so story that ignores the realities transit planners faced, but does jibe with city residents' sense of issues of race, power, and influence. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  1/27/2021
  

  How the New Orleans Streetcar Revival Left Bus Riders Behind

  A number of historical dynamics, including racial segregation and the growth of a tourist economy, account for decisions in the Crescent City that have refurbished a fraction of the old streetcar system at high cost while ignoring the health of bus systems that poor and working residents depend on, says NOLA transit historian Kevin McQueeney. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  5/11/2020
  

  ‘Last Train’: New York Subway Shutdown Because of Coronavirus is Another Historic First

  In New York, nightly subway closures mean a tear in the fabric of the city.  

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  4/8/2020
  

  Political Broken Promises: Self-Serving Officials And Unrealistic Expectations In The History Of The NYC Subway

  by Philip Mark Plotch

  Beware of politicians who promise that they can upgrade and expand their transit systems and provide reliable service without asking you to pay more.