Synopses & Reviews
"Smerk's account, thankfully, is not just another exercise in quantitative analysis. He makes his points with words and sentences, not numbers and charts. The result is a free-flowing narrative in which changes in federal policy over the years are shown to have occurred because people interacted within certain political frames of reference.... I highly recommend this book... "
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-380) and index.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Federal Mass Transportation Policy: Transit in Transition
2. Urban Mass Transit in the Mid-1980s
3. The Environment of Transit Policy: Cities in an Age of Change
4. The Rise and Fall of Mass Transit
5. The Advent of Federal Transit Policy
6. A Program Develops: The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 and the 1966 Amendments
7. Major Growth in the Mass Transit Program: The Acts of 1970 and 1973
8. The National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974
9. The Surface Transportation Act of 1978
10. A Troubled Coalition: The Transit Act That Never Was
11. Federal Mass Transit Policy in the Age of Reagan, 1981-1982
12. The Urban Mass Transportation Act at 20
13. The Federal Mass Transit Programs, 1984-1987
14. The Once and Future Program of Federal Mass Transit Policy
Notes
Index