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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 — 910 ratings — published 2011
Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 178 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 — 800 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 — 9,157 ratings — published 2012
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as transit)
avg rating 4.11 — 846 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 4.20 — 482 ratings — published 2006
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,869 ratings — published 2012
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,138 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,284 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 — 875 ratings — published 2003
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as transit)
avg rating 4.14 — 359 ratings — published 2023
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 6 times as transit)
avg rating 4.16 — 205 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 — 1,741 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 — 205 ratings — published 2024
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.17 — 5,928 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 4.15 — 662 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 — 8,279 ratings — published 2008
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,621 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 — 142 ratings — published
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.12 — 865 ratings — published 2024
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.21 — 392 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 — 718 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 4.22 — 90 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 4.33 — 135 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 — 196 ratings — published 2016
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.06 — 618 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 — 177 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 4.13 — 734 ratings — published 2024
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 715,488 ratings — published 1995
A Shining (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 14,867 ratings — published 2023
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,832 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 — 390 ratings — published 1993
The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 691 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 4.21 — 253 ratings — published
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.05 — 103 ratings — published
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.38 — 652 ratings — published 2021
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.80 — 282 ratings — published 2016
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 491 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 — 330 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 — 621 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)
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avg rating 4.25 — 32 ratings — published
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 2,118 ratings — published 1985
Transport for Suburbia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 64 ratings — published 2009
“Much of the signal system was installed in the 1930s and transit employees now have to fabricate their own replacement parts for obsolete equipment. While subway riders have to rely on this century-old technology, New York's automobile drivers take advantage of traffic signals that are part of a sophisticated information network. Above the streets, the city's Department of Transportation monitors data from sensors and video cameras to identify congestion choke points, and the remotely adjusts computerized traffic signals to optimize the flow of vehicles. Drivers obtain accurate, real-time traffic condition information via electronic signals, computers and smartphones.”
― 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
“The cost of the first phase was astronomical because of 1) inefficient phasing and high real estate costs, 2) powerful unions earning high wages and dictating costly work rules, and 3) regulations and environmental sensitivities.”
― 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
