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Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 914 ratings — published 2011
Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 177 ratings — published
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as transit)
avg rating 4.24 — 803 ratings — published 2019
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as transit)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,207 ratings — published 2012
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as transit)
avg rating 4.11 — 848 ratings — published 2011
The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro (Creating the North American Landscape)
by (shelved 9 times as transit)
avg rating 4.19 — 485 ratings — published 2006
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as transit)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,937 ratings — published 2012
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.14 — 365 ratings — published 2023
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,146 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,295 ratings — published 2016
Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 877 ratings — published 2003
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 6 times as transit)
avg rating 4.16 — 206 ratings — published 2008
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as transit)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,748 ratings — published 2014
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as transit)
avg rating 4.42 — 208 ratings — published 2024
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as transit)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,021 ratings — published 2023
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as transit)
avg rating 4.14 — 667 ratings — published
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as transit)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,292 ratings — published 2008
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,750 ratings — published 2025
Human Transit (Revised Edition): How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.53 — 149 ratings — published
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.12 — 888 ratings — published 2024
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.20 — 397 ratings — published 2023
The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 3.74 — 80 ratings — published
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.38 — 722 ratings — published 2018
Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?: Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.23 — 92 ratings — published
Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.07 — 27 ratings — published
Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.34 — 137 ratings — published 2014
BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 3.63 — 197 ratings — published 2016
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.06 — 617 ratings — published 2011
Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.49 — 180 ratings — published
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.12 — 753 ratings — published 2024
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 753,116 ratings — published 1995
A Shining (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 15,256 ratings — published 2023
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,942 ratings — published 2020
722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.81 — 391 ratings — published 1993
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 698 ratings — published 2012
Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 14 ratings — published 2023
Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.20 — 258 ratings — published
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.03 — 105 ratings — published
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.37 — 660 ratings — published 2021
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 284 ratings — published 2016
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.79 — 493 ratings — published 2013
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.01 — 97 ratings — published
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.19 — 332 ratings — published 2018
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.37 — 624 ratings — published 2020
The Routes Not Taken: A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.57 — 86 ratings — published 2013
Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.83 — 602 ratings — published 2012
Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City (ebook)
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avg rating 4.14 — 92 ratings — published
Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California's East Bay (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser. Book 40)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 32 ratings — published
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 2,122 ratings — published 1985
Transport for Suburbia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 64 ratings — published 2009
“People like to talk a lot of shit about the MTA, but it’s really an amazing system, when you think about it. The trains run twenty-four hours. It serves something like four million people daily. Over a billion rides a year. And it does a pretty good job staying on schedule. Yeah, it could be a little cleaner, but it’s not so bad.”
― In Limbo
― In Limbo
“Rather than create a city where all residents would be within walking distance of rapid transit services, officials built one where all residents would be within a short drive from a highway.”
― Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
― Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City











