{"title":"Technology \u0026 Engineering--Civil--Transportation","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-lost-subways-of-north-america-a-cartographic-guide-to-the-past-present-and-what-might-have-been","title":"The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA visual exploration of the transit histories of twenty-three US and Canadian cities.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Every driver in North America shares one miserable, soul-sucking universal experience--being stuck in traffic. But things weren't always like this. Why is it that the mass transit systems of most cities in the United States and Canada are now utterly inadequate? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Subways of North America \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new way to consider this eternal question, with a strikingly visual--and fun--journey through past, present, and unbuilt urban transit. Using meticulous archival research, cartographer and artist Jake Berman has successfully plotted maps of old train networks covering twenty-three North American metropolises, ranging from New York City's Civil War-era plan for a steam-powered subway under Fifth Avenue to the ultramodern automated Vancouver SkyTrain and the thousand-mile electric railway system of pre-World War II Los Angeles. 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While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains, they are guilty of creating a transportation system whose designs remain largely based on plausible, but unproven, conjecture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, \u003ci\u003eKilled by a Traffic Engineer\u003c\/i\u003e shows how traffic engineering \"research\" is outdated and unexamined (at its best) and often steered by an industry and culture considering only how to get from point A to B the fastest way possible, to the detriment of safety, quality of life, equality, and planetary health. Marshall examines our need for speed and how traffic engineers disconnected it from safety, the focus on capacity and how it influences design, blaming human error, relying on faulty data, how liability drives reporting, measuring road safety outcomes, and the education (and reeducation) of traffic engineers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eKilled by a Traffic Engineer\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately hopeful about what is possible once we shift our thinking and demand streets engineered for the safety of people, both outside and inside of cars. 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