An Early Toll Road
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Author | : David Broderick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book shows why Ireland's first toll roads, known as turnpike roads, came into existence. It traces the development of Ireland's principal roads, the basis of our present arterial system, from the late medieval period. Originally based on the port of Dublin, the turnpike roads quickly spread to Cork, Limerick, Belfast and eventually the rest of the country except the northwest.
Author | : Mitchell E. Dakelman |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2004-06-16 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1439631840 |
See how the Pennsylvania Turnpike proved the doubters wrong and came to be known as the World's Greatest Highway. The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the best-known highways in the United States. Most Pennsylvania Turnpike travelers are unaware that its construction was inspired by the route of the never-completed South Pennsylvania Railroad. In the 1930s, men of great vision conceived, planned, and built the nation's first long-distance superhighway using the abandoned railroad's partially finished tunnels as its foundation. The Pennsylvania Turnpike draws from the extensive photograph collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were taken by photographers hired by both the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and its contractors, and most have never been published previously. Originally predicted to be a financial failure, the project wound up being a tremendous success and, eventually was expanded and improved, laying the groundwork for the nation's Interstate Highway System.
Author | : David Broderick |
Publisher | : Maynooth Studies in Local Hist |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This is a record of how the Dublin-Dunleer Turnpike "came into existence, how it operated and how it ended"--Introduction.
Author | : Brian Butko |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Fully revised and updated edition Filled with all-new vintage postcards and photos Maps for travelers following the original route The Lincoln Highway, established in 1913 as the first roadway to cross the United States, continues to change. This new, updated edition of the successful guidebook to the route in Pennsylvania reflects those changes, focusing on recent trends on the highway, such as the appearance of retro buildings. The book describes what life was like along the old highway-with its stainless-steel diners, mom-and-pop businesses, spectacular scenery, and roadside attractions-and reveals how much of the past is still around.
Author | : Robert Bain |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0956152716 |
Toll roads, bridges and tunnels represent the most popular class of infrastructure attracting international private finance today. Many deals, however, expose financiers, insurers and other project counterparties to demand risk. This moves traffic and revenue forecasts centre-stage in terms of being able to understand and test the investment proposition - yet the forecasting process itself often remains a mystery. Additionally, there are frequent concerns about predictive reliability. Written specifically for credit analysts, investors and other professionals whose primary expertise lies outside transportation, this book lifts the lid on the 'black box' of traffic and revenue forecasting. The author, Robert Bain (ex-S&P and a civil engineer with 20+ years of forecasting experience) has prepared a straightforward guide which highlights key issues to watch for and suggests ways in which the forecasts can be analysed to improve transparency and investor understanding.
Author | : Patrick M. Reynolds |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1985-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Frederick Howard |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1998-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520926219 |
A critical era in California's history and development—the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada—is thoroughly and colorfully documented in Thomas Howard's fascinating book. During California's first two decades of statehood (1850-1870), the state was separated from the east coast by a sea journey of at least six weeks. Although Californians expected to be connected with the other states by railroad soon after the 1849 Gold Rush, almost twenty years elapsed before this occurred. Meanwhile, various overland road ventures were launched by "emigrants," former gold miners, state government officials, the War Department, the Interior Department, local politicians, town businessmen, stagecoach operators, and other entrepreneurs whose alliances with one another were constantly shifting. The broad landscape of international affairs is also a part of Howard's story. Constructing roads and accumulating geographic information in the Sierra Nevada reflected Washington's interest in securing the vast western territories formerly held by others. In a remarkably short time the Sierra was transformed by vigorous exploration, road-promotion, and road-building. Ox-drawn wagons gave way to stagecoaches able to provide service as fine as any in the country. Howard effectively uses diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and official reports to recreate the human struggle and excitement involved in building the first trans-Sierra roads. Some of those roads have become modern highways used by thousands every day, while others are now only dim traces in the lonely backcountry.
Author | : José A. Gómez-Ibáñez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Privatization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert W. Poole |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2018-08-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022655760X |
A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.
Author | : David S. Kriger |
Publisher | : Transportation Research Board |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0309097762 |