How Long to Read The Great American Transit Disaster

How Long Does it Take to Read The Great American Transit Disaster?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 9 minutes to read The Great American Transit Disaster by Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A potent re-examination of America’s history of public disinvestment in mass transit. Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation throughout the latter decades of the twentieth century. But as Nicholas Dagen Bloom shows in The Great American Transit Disaster, our transit networks are so bad for a very simple reason: we wanted it this way. Focusing on Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, and San Francisco, Bloom provides overwhelming evidence that transit disinvestment was a choice rather than destiny. He pinpoints three major factors that led to the decline of public transit in the United States: municipal austerity policies that denied most transit agencies the funding to sustain high-quality service; the encouragement of auto-centric planning; and white flight from dense city centers to far-flung suburbs. As Bloom makes clear, these local public policy decisions were not the product of a nefarious auto industry or any other grand conspiracy—all were widely supported by voters, who effectively shut out options for transit-friendly futures. With this book, Bloom seeks not only to dispel our accepted transit myths but hopefully to lay new tracks for today’s conversations about public transportation funding.

How long is The Great American Transit Disaster?

The Great American Transit Disaster by Nicholas Dagen Bloom is 364 pages long, and a total of 92,456 words.

This makes it 123% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Great American Transit Disaster Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 25 minutes to read The Great American Transit Disaster aloud.

What Reading Level is The Great American Transit Disaster?

The Great American Transit Disaster is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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