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Transit Books
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Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as transit)
avg rating 4.37 — 883 ratings — published 2011
Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as transit)
avg rating 4.25 — 172 ratings — published
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as transit)
avg rating 4.24 — 779 ratings — published 2019
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as transit)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,681 ratings — published 2012
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as transit)
avg rating 4.11 — 839 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 — 459 ratings — published 2006
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,069 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,201 ratings — published 2016
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as transit)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,384 ratings — published 2012
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 — 866 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 — 311 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 — 192 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 — 1,687 ratings — published 2014
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as transit)
avg rating 4.43 — 171 ratings — published 2024
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as transit)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,201 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 4.17 — 630 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 — 8,193 ratings — published 2008
Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.47 — 108 ratings — published
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.14 — 563 ratings — published 2024
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.22 — 351 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 3.86 — 74 ratings — published
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.38 — 678 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 4.26 — 87 ratings — published
Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.08 — 25 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 — 126 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 — 184 ratings — published 2016
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.06 — 613 ratings — published 2011
A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.03 — 349 ratings — published 2010
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as transit)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,931 ratings — published 1961
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.44 — 481 ratings — published 2025
Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.50 — 156 ratings — published
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.10 — 466,091 ratings — published 1995
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.13 — 739 ratings — published 2024
The Birthday Party (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,440 ratings — published 2020
Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.54 — 13 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 — 223 ratings — published
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.08 — 93 ratings — published
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.80 — 275 ratings — published 2016
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.78 — 475 ratings — published 2013
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.98 — 93 ratings — published
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.20 — 329 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 4.38 — 602 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
Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.16 — 83 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 — 28 ratings — published
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,080 ratings — published 1985
Transport for Suburbia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.35 — 63 ratings — published 2009
Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 3.79 — 119 ratings — published 2012
The City Beneath Us: Building the New York Subway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.02 — 57 ratings — published 2004
How Cycling Can Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transit)
avg rating 4.17 — 845 ratings — published 2017
“Beyond a critical speed, no one can save time without forcing another to lose it. The man who claims a seat in a faster vehicle insists that his time is worth more than that of the passenger in a slower one. Beyond a certain velocity, passengers become consumers of other people’s time, and accelerating vehicles become the means for effecting a net transfer of life-time.”
― Energy and Equity
― Energy and Equity
“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
