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Interstate
This new, expanded edition brings the story of the
Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an
account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and
communities as the urban expressways of the highway network
destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities.
Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts,
when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San
Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and
other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records
of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway
Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation
brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame
the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state
highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation
decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze
the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s,
especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
(ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund
dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking
trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the
surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement,
an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging,
and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through
the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway
activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to
restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar
lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised
edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid
research by two well-known scholars.
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America's First Interstate
The story of America's first government-sponsored highway The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government.Built between 1811 and 1837, this 620-mile road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was the main avenue to the West.
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A Route 66 Companion
Even before there was a road, there was a route. Buffalo trails, Indian paths, the old Santa Fe trace—all led across the Great Plains and the western mountains to the golden oasis of California. America’s insatiable westering urge culminated in Route 66, the highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles. Opened in 1926, Route 66 became the quintessential American road. It offered the chance for freedom and a better life, whether you were down-and-out Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl in the 1930s or cool guys cruising in a Corvette in the 1960s. Even though the interstates long ago turned Route 66 into a bylane, it still draws travelers from around the world who long to experience the freedom of the open road. A Route 66 Companion gathers fiction, poetry, memoir, and oral history to present a literary historical portrait of America’s most storied highway. From accounts of pioneering trips across the western plains to a sci-fi fantasy of traveling Route 66 in a rocket, here are stories that explore the mystique of the open road, told by master storytellers ranging from Washington Irving to Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, Leslie Marmon Silko, and John Steinbeck. Interspersed among them are reminiscences that, for the first time, honor the varied cultures—Native American, Mexican American, and African American, as well as Anglo—whose experiences run through the Route 66 story like the stripe down the highway. So put the top down, set the cruise control, and “make that California trip\" with A Route 66 Companion.
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Changing Lanes
Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects -- with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation. DiMento and Ellis examine the competing visions of the different professions involved in planning these highways and their varying approaches to improving city life. They describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envison urban transportation.
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Are State Governments Roadblocks to Federal Stimulus? Evidence on the Flypaper Effect of Highway Grants in the 2009 Recovery Act
This paper examines how state governments adjusted spending in response to the large temporary increase in federal highway grants under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The mechanism used to apportion ARRA highway grants to states allows one to isolate exogenous changes in these grants. The results indicate that states increased highway spending over 2009 to 2011 more than dollar-for-dollar with the ARRA grants they received. Rent-seeking efforts are shown to help explain this result: states with more political contributions from the public works sector to the governor and state legislators tended to spend more out of their ARRA highway funds than other states.
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Urban and Industrial Environments
The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.
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The Effect of Expectations and Expectancy Confirmation/Disconfirmation on Motorists' Satisfaction with State Highways
Over the past several years, scholars have asked how citizen satisfaction with public services might be affected by the expectations citizens have for service quality. Might satisfaction with public services be affected just not only by the perceived quality of those services but also by the quality citizens expect services to have? This line of questioning uses the so-called \"expectancy disconfirmation\" model drawn from private sector research, which views consumer satisfaction with privately provided goods and services as typically deriving from a comparison of perceived performance to expected performance. This article extends this research by examining the effects of expectations and expectancy confirmation/disconfirmation on motorists' satisfaction with road conditions, traffic flow, and safety on state highways in Georgia. Expectations were found to have consistently negative, though modest, effects on satisfaction, with satisfaction declining as expectations increase. Those effects obtain in addition to those of perceived performance, grades, and expectancy confirmation/disconfirmation, providing further support for the expectancy disconfirmation model and clarifying some mixed findings from prior research. The conclusions discuss what these findings suggest about possible future research.
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Procuring authorities and project performance: a case study of PPP highway projects in India
PurposePublic-private partnership (PPP) highway projects in India are undertaken at both state and national levels, such that differences exist in how the procuring authorities manage project risk during the development and construction phase under different institutional frameworks. This study assesses the performance implication of the different administrative positionings of the procuring authority.Design/methodology/approachA data set of 516 PPP highway projects implemented in India formed the basis of this study. Means comparison, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and seemingly unrelated regression were used to assess the impact of procuring authority on schedule performance.FindingsThe findings suggest that the state and the national highway projects were no different in achieving financial closure. However, the administrative positioning of the procuring authorities had a significant impact on other schedule performance variables. The construction of the state highway projects started quickly after the financial closure compared to the national highway projects. Moreover, the state highway projects were not only planned to be implemented at a faster rate but they were actually implemented at a faster rate and had a lower time overrun.Practical implicationsProcuring authorities under the state governments, being closer to the project, are better placed to manage project risk than those under the national government.Originality/valueThe administrative distance of the procuring authority from the PPP project and its implication on performance has never been studied.
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