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Brett, Andre

 
9781990048098: Can’t Get There From Here: New Zealand Passenger Rail Since 1920
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1990048099 ISBN 13 : 9781990048098
Editeur : Otago University Press, 2021

Synopsis

"Urban passenger rail patronage in Auckland and Wellington is now booming after many years of decline. Outside these two centres, however, the situation is quite different: intercity and regional passenger rail services are scarce, and no other city possesses suburban rail. Not only does this hamper the mobility of regional New Zealanders, it is incongruous in light of the climate emergency declared by many local councils. Can t Get There from Here traces the expansion and more commonly the contraction of New Zealand s passenger rail network over the last century. What is the historical context of today s imbalance between rail and road? How far and wide did the passenger rail network once run? Why is there an abject lack of services beyond the North Island s two main cities, even as demand for passenger transport continues to grow? This book seeks to answer these questions. In this fascinating study, Andre Brett argues that the trend away from passenger rail might appear inevitable and irreversible but it was not. Things could have been and still could be very different. We need to understand the challenges that brought passenger rail to the brink of extinction in order to create policy for future transport that is efficient and sustainable."

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À propos de l'auteur

Sam van der Weerden is a Dunedin mathematician and mapmaker who has carried out map work for Otago Regional Council's bus services, and Sarah Gallagher's book Scarfie Flats (2019) and promotional posters for Anthonie Tonnon's Rail Land tour (https: //www.anthonietonnon.com/railland). Andre Brett is a postdoctoral researcher in history at the University of Wollongong. He has written numerous articles on Australian and New Zealand history for scholarly and popular publications in both countries, and in 2016 wrote Acknowledge No Frontier: The Creation and Demise of New Zealand's Provinces, 1853-76.

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Éditeur
Otago University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1990048099
ISBN 13 
9781990048098
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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