The Wheels That Drove New York : A History of the New York City Transit System /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Series: | Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the New York City Transit System
- An Overview of the History of New York: Discovery Through the Civil War
- Enabling Technologies
- The Beginnings of Public Transportation in New York: Omnibuses and Street Railways
- The Age of Trolleys
- To "El" and Back: The Era of the Elevated Railroad
- Alfred E Beach and New York's First Subway
- The Interborough Rapid Transit System
- The Dual Contracts and Expansion of the Subways
- The Independent Subway
- The Staten Island Rapid Transit
- When the Rubber Hits the Road
- Unification, a War, and the New York City Transit Authority
- Prelude to Disaster - The NYCTA Between 1953 and 1970 Things Have to Get Worse Before They Get Better: NYC Transit - 1970 to the Present
- Rolling Thunder
- The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men.