[PDF.34wp] Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles (Technology and the Environment (Paperback))

Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles (Technology and the Environment (Paperback))

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 | #3237046 in Books |  University Of Akron Press |  2005-01-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.25 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 492 pages

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||9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Author's response|By Dr. J. E. Richmond|Response from the author to Stewart Chesler

To reply to Stewart Chesler's comments, it is clear that he has not received the book's principal message. The book does deal with issues of whether the Long Beach Line was a good decision but, far more importantly, it is about the thought processes that led the project to be adopted|About the Author|Jonathan E. D. Richmond has a Ph.D. in transportation planning from MIT, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, has taught at UCLA, the University of Reading and the University of Sydney, held a fellowship at Harvard, served as transportation policy

Transport of Delight is a true interdisciplinary work, and includes a thorough analytical assessment of the Los Angeles rail program, with a focus on the Long Beach Blue Line light rail-the first of the new projects to go ahead. En route, it shows that ridership forecasting for this project was not only biased and statistically invalid, but in fact done to justify decisions made on other grounds. This unusual book develops a novel theory of myth to explain the constructi...

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