Movement

Movement

New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car

Gelinas, Nicole

Fordham University Press

11/2024

576

Dura

9781531508210

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction | 1

Part 1: Driving to the Brink | 5

1. New York's Original Sin: Scrapping Street Transit | 7

2. The 1929 Regional Plan: Paving New York's Car Future | 23

3. Kids versus Cars: A Housewife's Fight to Save Washington Square Park | 43

4. Changing Times (and Minds): Defeating the Lower Manhattan Expressway | 65

5. No Way on Westway: A Watery Grave for Manhattan's Last Highway | 79

Part 2: Getting Back on Track | 103

6. Struck City: The Shutdown That Stressed the Value of Transit | 105

7. Skull Practice at Triborough: Confronting Decades of Mass- Transit Deficits | 118

8. Nixon's Nudge: The Federal Laws That Forced a New Direction | 143

9. The Lion of the MTA: The Push to Rebuild New York's Transit | 159

10. From Fear Train to Packed Train: Securing New York's Subways | 180

Part 3: Beyond Transit: Wrestling with New York's Asphalt Legacy | 201

11. Splitting Lanes: From Bike Nuts to Bike Share | 203

12. Freedom to Walk: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Play Streets | 242

13. Killed in the Crosswalk: Turning Tragedies into Progress | 271

14. Yellow, Green, Black: The Struggle to Limit Ride Services | 297

15. Thou Shalt Not Park Here: The Politics of Public Parking | 327

16. Our Right to Park: The High Cost of Residential Parking | 348

Part 4: Unfinished Business | 361

17. Fast Forward: Plans to Fix New York's Bus System | 363

18. Ban, Charge, or Suffer: The Forever Politics of Congestion Pricing | 378

19. Two Miles: Bronx Mothers versus the Ghost of Moses | 404

20. Deliveristas and Dining Sheds: Locked- Down New York Unlocks Its Streets | 420

21. Sick Transit: Whither the Subways-and New York? | 440

Acknowledgments | 457

Notes | 461

Bibliography | 553

Index | 557

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New York City history; urban history; New York City policy; urban policy; transportation policy; transit history; transit policy; urban bicycling; traffic deaths; traffic safety; traffic management; urban renewal; urban growth