Book Review: Divided Highways
analytical Essay
505 words
Since the beginning of the United States the American people have been on the move. Public transportation has played a major role in the development of this nation and in bringing its citizens together. In the book “Divided Highways”, author Tom Lewis takes the reader on a journey of the building of the Interstates and the consequences(good and bad) that came from them. Lewis believes that the Interstates are a physical characteristic of America and that it shows “all our glory and our meanness; all our vision and our shortsightedness”(xiv). Throughout the book Tom Lewis goes back and forth between the good and bad that came about from building highways. While the paved roads connected our country, made travel time faster, provided recreation, and pushed the development of automobiles they also created more congestion and travel time, divided communities, and made us slaves to automobiles. The author is critical of the highways, but he does realize the great achievement it is in the building of America. Lewis said, “As much as we might dislike them, we cannot escape the fact that ...
In this essay, the author
- Explains that public transportation has played a major role in the development of the united states and in bringing its citizens together. lewis believes that the interstates represent america's glory and meanness.
- Analyzes how tom lewis goes back and forth between the good and bad that came about from building highways, but realizes the great achievement it is in the building of america.
- Opines that lewis could have done better at giving the reader a before-hand history of what life and transportation was like before the spread of the automobile.
- Explains that public transportation has played a major role in the development of the united states and in bringing its citizens together. lewis believes that the interstates represent america's glory and meanness.
- Analyzes how tom lewis goes back and forth between the good and bad that came about from building highways, but realizes the great achievement it is in the building of america.
- Opines that lewis could have done better at giving the reader a before-hand history of what life and transportation was like before the spread of the automobile.
- Analyzes how the book changes the way people think about the interstate highways because it shows how much people rely on them.
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- Argues that current attitudes towards transit are shaped within a landscape that is conducive to owning and driving private automobiles.
- Explains that recent efforts on bringing transit-friendly land uses and new network lines in several cities are mainly a reaction to growing concerns about traffic congestion and environmental quality.
- Explains that people's attitudes towards public transportation in the u.s. are as diverse as the country itself.
- Argues that current attitudes towards transit are shaped within a landscape that is conducive to owning and driving private automobiles.
- Explains that recent efforts on bringing transit-friendly land uses and new network lines in several cities are mainly a reaction to growing concerns about traffic congestion and environmental quality.
- Explains that public preferences are usually reflected in public policy, but political leadership could induce a change in these preferences. strong federal and state support to suburbanization and highway expansion may have indirectly catalyzed public attitudes towards transit.
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- Explains that 87.2% of american homes owned at least one vehicle in 1980, while 51.5% of americans owned more than one car. the highway system was created in 1938.
- Explains that 87.2% of american homes owned at least one vehicle in 1980, while 51.5% of americans owned more than one car. the highway system was created in 1938.
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- Explains that more pollution is going to be emitted near the south mountain preserve ecosystem and the local community of laveen.
- Explains that cutting the number of lanes would cause less space being occupied, and it would require less money because it will not need as many resources.
- Opines that loop 202's environmental impacts are more negative than positive. the alternative solutions proposed in the paragraphs above explain why the negatives outweigh the positives.
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