Book description
An expertly woven history and critique of the ideas shaping transportation in the United States.
Excruciating traffic jams. Struggling transit agencies. An epidemic of pedestrian fatalities. It is clear that transportation is not working in the United States and that we need to rethink our approach. In Shifting Gears, Susan…
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The American transportation system—encompassing not only roads but also vehicles, transit systems, and even tax policy—makes driving remarkably easy for most Americans but at a terrible cost in money, pollution, and lives. Transportation professor Susan Handy writes clearly and hopefully of the choices we can make about how to live and travel.
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