Express Highways in the United States
Author: United States. Public Roads Administration
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 42
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 42
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Published: 1945
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
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Published: 1965
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains state maps detailing the express highways in each state.
Author: Robert W. Poole
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-08-03
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 022655760X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
Author: Mark H. Rose
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark H. Rose
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780870496714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An expansion of the 1979 edition, which covered 1941-56, examining the recent shift of power in the politics of the interstate-and-defense system, from the national to the local level, and from scientific to political elites. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: William Kaszynski
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780786408221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Minnesota-based writer and photographer Kazynski traces the transformation of the US from a network of places connected by rutted wagon trails to a maze of highways connected to other highways. He describes and illustrates road and bridge construction and the new roadside culture that threw up motels, restaurants, gas stations, and scenic perspectives.
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clayton Nall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-22
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1108417590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.
Author: United States. Federal Works Agency
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 17
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