AT ROAD'S END: TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE CHOICES FOR COMMUNITIES. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY PROJECT

This book is an examination of the effects of the post-war auto-oriented transportation system on the form and feel of our communities. The concern was that the car culture, in the name of providing greater freedom and mobility, was actually destroying much of what has made American towns and cities livable; that a kind of monoculture of car-based mobility was upsetting the balance of community. The purpose of this book is to offer models of locally based change which coincide with the major federal policy shifts contained in ISTEA (the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991), namely that federal transportation policy now includes not only more and bigger roads, but planning and funding for getting around on foot, by train, bus, bike, and car.