Title
Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles
Files
Description
Transport of Delight is a true interdisciplinary work, and includes a thorough analytical assessment of the Los Angeles rail program, with a focus on the Long Beach Blue Line light rail. This insightful book develops a novel theory of myth to explain the construction of rail passenger transit in Los Angeles, a city of automobiles, an area that could have been better served by developing a regional bus system. The author found that a network of symbols, images, and metaphors, instead of solid evidence, led to the notion that light rail was the answer to the transportation problem.
Provocative metaphors—of the need to connect communities and to restore a mythical balance to a dysfunctional transportation system—and symbols—of escape from the pressure cooker of poverty, of urban success, power and, indeed sexual acumen—resulted in the very human need to transcend complexity by providing mythical creations that appear to offer easy answers to society's deepest problems.
ISBN
978-1-884836-94-7
Publication Date
Winter 1-1-2005
Publisher
University of Akron Press
City
Akron, OH
Keywords
Transportation, Myth, Government Policies
Disciplines
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
Recommended Citation
Richmond, Jonathan E.D., "Transport of Delight: The Mythical Conception of Rail Transit in Los Angeles" (2005). University of Akron Press Publications. 89.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/uapress_publications/89