Last Subway
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-5366-3 (ISBN)
Since the 1920s, New Yorkers have been promised a Second Avenue subway. When the first of four planned phases opened on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 2017, subway service improved for tens of thousands of people. Riders have been delighted with the clean, quiet, and spacious new stations. Yet these types of accomplishments will not be repeated unless New Yorkers learn from their century-long struggle.
Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects. However, it is also a cautionary tale for cities. Plotch reveals how false promises, redirected funds and political ambitions have derailed subway improvements. Given the ridiculously high cost of building new subways in New York and their lengthy construction period, the Second Avenue subway (if it is ever completed) will be the last subway built in New York for generations to come.
Philip Mark Plotch is an associate professor of political science and director of the Master of Public Administration program at Saint Peter's University. He has served as Director of World Trade Center Redevelopment and Special Projects at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, and manager of planning and policy at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Plotch is the award-winning author of Politics Across the Hudson. Follow him on X @profplotch.
Introducrion: Long Wait for a Train
1. From a Compact City into a Metropolis
2. An Empty Promise
3. The Billionaire's Ambitions
4. Construction Begins and Construction Ends
5. Saving the Subway
6. Planning from the Bottom Up
7. A Twenty-First-Century Subway
8. Building a Subway and Unleashing the Plagues
9. Andrew Cuomo's Finish Line
Conclusion: Delays Ahead
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 Maps; 37 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Ithaca |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 907 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Nutzfahrzeuge | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8014-5366-6 / 0801453666 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8014-5366-3 / 9780801453663 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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