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September/October 1997

September/October 1997

Review : Asphalt Nation

How the automobile took over America and how we can take it back.

Asphalt Nation How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take it Back by Jane Holtz Kay New York: Random House, 1997.US $32.95 Review by James Miraglia Imagine if 120 or so people died in a horrendous plane […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

East St. Louis Puts Transportation Planners On the Right Track

by Patricia Nolan  In 1993, St. Louis launched its 18-mile regional light rail system, named MetroLink, which has since become a tremendous success. MetroLink’s 31-vehicle fleet transports as many as 100,000 people per day to and from all of the […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

Making Tracks for Justice The Fight for Fair Transportation and Economic Development in Milwaukee

by John Anner “What this fight is really about,” James Morris says suddenly, in the middle of a discussion about transportation policy in Milwaukee, “is a city-versus-suburb thing. What the central city needs and what the suburbs want are two […]

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September/October 1997

Are We There Yet? Is There REAL Public Participation Under ISTEA?

by Lisa Schreibman Federal rules require public involvement in transportation planning. So far, it looks like we have another participation game and the big decisions are still made in a closet. The 1991 amendments to the federal surface transportation program, […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

Eight Myths of Traffic Planning

Eight Myths of Traffic Planning by Roger Baker  A growing number of planning experts realize that current trends in transportation are unsustainable. Like an addictive drug, a transportation policy oriented around the private automobile dictates urban policies in a way […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

Transportation Struggles in the Post-Apartheid City

by Jon Orcutt The transportation system most South Africans face today is a mixture of patched-up, third-rate public transport inherited from apartheid and a chaotic, unregulated minibus-taxi system that is a source of swelling public complaint. But political transformation in […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

September/October 1997

The Seventh Generation

The Seventh Generation by Thomas Angotti On Saturday, July 12th of this year, I was performing my daily jogging ritual in Prospect Park, Brooklyn’s great green space, when I came across a biker laid out on the park roadway. She […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 September/October 1997

Progressive Planning Magazine back issues September/October 1997

September/October 1997 : Transportation Planning

Column The Seventh Generation  by Thomas Angotti Feature Transportation Struggles in the Post-Apartheid City  by Jon Orcutt Eight Myths of Traffic Planning  by Roger Baker Are We There Yet?  Is There REAL Public Participation Under ISTEA? by Lisa Schreibman Making […]

September 30, 1997August 30, 2012 Progressive Planning Magazine back issues, September/October 1997

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