| #1141644 in Books | 2012-04-24 | 2012-04-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.33 x1.25 x6.44l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| I Hate Driving!|By Julia Miller|So this book is made for me - an exploration of mass transit around the world and what makes it work so well in some places while failing in others. I have lived with good transit and loved it and currently live with basically no transit, which drives me crazy. I liked the variety of places Grescoe visited and his ideas about what makes a syste|||“All the cities we admire most in the world--the places young people want to live--boast great public transit systems or are in the process of building them. Taras Grescoe explains why: there's nothing more civilized than a great subway, or a bus rapid
Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution
"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering―a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford insurance, or too decrepit to get behind the wheel of a car...
You easily download any file type for your device.Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile | Taras Grescoe. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
