Last Subway : The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City /

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"The story of the Second Avenue subway, as it symbolizes New York's inability to modernize its infrastructure and reveals the ingredients necessary to build a twenty-first-century megaproject"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Plotch, Philip Mark, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
New York City Transit Authority.
Transportation and state.
Subways > Economic aspects.
Subways.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Transport > Politique gouvernementale > New York (État) > New York.
Metros > Aspect politique > New York (État) > New York.
Metros > Aspect economique > New York (État) > New York.
Metros > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Transportation and state > New York (State) > New York.
Subways > Political aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Subways > Economic aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Subways > New York (State) > New York > History.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a long wait for a train
  • From a compact city into a metropolis (NYC before World War Two)
  • An empty promise (late 1940s and 1950s)
  • The billionaire's ambitions (1960s to 1972)
  • Construction begins and construction ends (1972 to 1976)
  • Saving the subway (late 1970s and 1980s)
  • Planning from the bottom up (1990s)
  • A 21st century subway (2000 to 2005)
  • Building a subway and unleashing the plagues (2006 to 2014)
  • Andrew Cuomo's finish line (2015 to 2016)
  • Conclusion : delays ahead.

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