Philip Mark Plotch, "Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City"
English | ISBN: 0801453666 | 2020 | 360 pages | PDF | 12 MB
English | ISBN: 0801453666 | 2020 | 360 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. He explains how a series of uninformed and self-serving elected officials have fostered false expectations about the city's ability to adequately maintain and significantly expand its transit system.
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