Ways to the West
Subtitle: how getting out of our cars is reclaiming America's frontier
By: Tim Sullivan
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780874219920
Subjects: Cities and towns; Description and travel; Automotive Transportation; Sustainable development
Description: "In Ways to the West, Tim Sullivan embarks on a car-less road trip through the Intermountain West, exploring how the region is taking on what may be its greatest challenge: sustainable transportation. Combining personal travel narrative, historical research, and his professional expertise in urban planning, Sullivan takes a critical yet optimistic and often humorous look at how contemporary Western cities are making themselves more hospitable to a life less centered on the personal vehicle. The modern West was built by the automobile, but so much driving has jeopardized the West's mystic hold on the American future. At first, automobility heightened the things that made the West great, but love became dependence, and dependence became addiction. Via his travels by bicycle, bus, and train through Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Portland, Sullivan captures the modern transportation evolution taking place across the region and the resulting ways in which contemporary Western communities are reinterpreting classic American values like mobility, opportunity, adventure, and freedom. Finding a West created, lost, and reclaimed, Ways to the West will be of great interest to anyone curious about sustainable transportation and the history, geography, and culture of the American West"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Selling the truck; title: The future. The first ride; title: Insanity; title: 89031; title: The man behind the double-decker buses; title: A different kind of street; title: Bus number 11; title: Shadowlands; title: Greyhound I: Las Vegas to St. George; title: The land. Black Hill; title: On the trail of the padres; title: Río Grande; title: Casting lots; title: The crossing of the fathers; title: The network and the frame; title: The inheritance; title: Journey to the center; title: Restoration; title: Recapitulation; title: Greyhound II: Salt Lake to Rock Springs; title: Opportunity. Home of Rock Springs coal; title: Crosswinds; title: South Pass; title: The biggest bust of them all; title: Independence Rock; title: Colonies; title: Greyhound III: Casper to Longmont; title: The most important trip of the day; title: Two economics; title: Corridor of opportunity; title: "Hell . . . it just exploded"; title: T-REX; title: The equation; title: The evolution; title: Greyhound IV: Denver to La Junta; title: Freedom. The junction; title: A Corridor of ideas (phase one); title: Órale; title: The Santa Fe; title: Death Valley Scotty, the super chief, and the annihilation of space (phase two); title: Greyhound V: Flagstaff to Phoenix; title: The anti-city (phase three); title: Why are people riding the light rail?; title: Waiting for the train; title: A city within cities; title: The ball boy; title: The changing of the guard; title: A nice ride; title: Adventure. Motoring; title: By the Lincoln Highway; title: Packed Veronica; title: Bank full; title: The Greenbelt; title: The Boise bicycle project; title: The city's front door; title: A low-friction lifestyle; title: Greyhound VI: Boise to Portland; title: The new mobility. Moving in place.