The Dynamics of Transit Innovation in Los Angeles

Bibliographic Data

ID4866690
AuthorsAdler (0000-0003-3663-3048), S Adler (Portland State University, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume4
Issue3
Pages321-335
Publication date1986-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d040321
OpenAlexW2041284862
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited7

The recent reemergence of the private sector in urban transit, as well as private-sector-like behavior in the public sector, are manifestations of profound political and fiscal crises that are reshaping the service and institutional structure of the US transit industry, These crises developed as coalitions of competing place-based activists sought to deploy transit investments as strategic weapons to gain location advantages, The history and politics of transit in the intensely competitive Los Angeles metropolitan area illuminate these dynamics, especially the continuing conflict between downtown Los Angeles and outlying business centers on the issues of rail rapid transit and the role of the regional bus transit agency. Privatization and institutional fragmentation, facilitated in Los Angeles by passage of a transit sales tax in 1980, are the strategies of choice for outlying business centers, just as region-wide agencies and radial rail rapid transit systems have been downtown initiatives

Agency (philosophy · Business · Downtown · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Metropolitan area · Political science · Politics · Private sector · Public transport · Sociology · Transit (satellite · Transport engineering · Engineering · Public Administration · Transport and Economic Policies · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Transport and Accessibility

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