Straphanger : Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)

from salimbol

I was amazed at how interesting and readable I found this book about public transport. It's as much a social history as one focused on transport technology, and the author elegantly demonstrates how deeply enmeshed urban planning is (and has always been) with commercial interests, often to a city...

from nmulvany

I remember the straps in the buses I rode in the early 1970s. Holding the strap helped to balance those riders who were standing in the aisle. Taras Grescoe considers straphangers to be people who use public transportation in any form. Quite often these are urbanites who do not own cars but may o...

from Othemts

In the previous book I've read by Taras Grescoe, The End of Elsewhere (one of my all-time favorite books), the author travels the world deliberately visiting the most touristed sites. In Straphanger, Grescoe travels the world again this time taking advantage of the rapid transit metro systems of ...

from Oberon

Straphanger by Taras Grescoe is an examination of transportation and how it relates to the development of cities. Grescoe advances his argument by giving readers an in-depth looks at a number of world cities. Grescoe explains each city's development, its current transit situation and then proceed...

from bane47

I really liked the way the author presented his point of view on the subject of mass transit. By using a different city to illustrate a different point in each chapter, he provides a crash course in some of the more efficient (and inefficient) public transit systems in the world, while highlighti...