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Schwartzs magic in this section is the behind the scenes perspective prompting the casual reader such as myself to think about the issues like a transportation engineer rather than like a consumer

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The section about selfdriving cars was especially insightful for the same reasons as the historical portion it approached the topic from the perspective of a transportation engineer rather than the perspective of a technologist or consumer

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The reasons i didnt rate the book 5 stars were i found the section on millenials and the benefits of walking a little bit unnecessarily long although i understand why schwartz would include it assuming an older target audience

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This book was an eyeopener

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We cant afford unbridled highway expansion when we cant maintain and repair what we already have

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Has become the most promising mega city to build a smart public transportation system• salt lake city with its’ envision utah initiative has bet on walking and transit solutions back in 1997 and is now being seen as the best large public transportation system in the us• new initiatives in many smaller us cities like boston austin and san francisco show the potential for amobility apps ranging from citymapper transitapp to google maps are connecting the dots for cities and citizens alike

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He made me lough when he talks about his ‘many acts of municipal sabotage’ erasing an existing road that cut through a new york park from a map

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And i was astonished to learn that he had the first bike lanes of new york build in the early 80s on 5th avenue and that mayor ed koch ultimately ordered that they be taken away