The City Too Busy To Hate

• Fig. 1.1.   Map of Greater Atlanta (not online).

• Fig. 1.2.   Streetcar system of Georgia Power, 1940.

• Fig. 1.3.   Early MARTA system plans, 1962.

• Fig. 1.4.   Proposed system rejected in the initial MARTA referendum, 1968.

• Fig. 1.5.   MARTA subway system, 2022.

Urban Institutions, Megaprojects and the Revival of Boston

• Fig. 2.1.    Map of Greater Boston (not online).

• Fig. 2.2.    Boston Elevated Railway rapid transit, 1925.

• Fig. 2.3.    Coolidge Commission transit expansion proposal, 1945.

• Fig. 2.4.    MBTA subways and light rail, 1967.

• Fig. 2.5.    MBTA rapid transit, with proposed Urban Ring busway and Silver Line bus tunnel, 2009.

• Fig. 2.6.    MBTA rapid transit, 2023.

The Loop Elevated: A Beloved Steel Eyesore

• Fig. 3.1.    Map of Greater Chicago (not online).

• Fig. 3.2.    Early Chicago elevateds, 1898.

• Fig. 3.3.    Chicago Elevated Railways system, 1921.

• Fig. 3.4.    Proposed Loop replacement subways, 1976.

• Fig. 3.5.    Central Area Circulator light rail proposal, 1994.

• Fig. 3.6.    CTA Circle Line proposal, 2002.

• Fig. 3.7.    CTA ‘L’ system, 2022.

A Short History of a Never-Used Subway

• Fig. 4.1.    Map of Greater Cincinnati (not online).

• Fig. 4.2.    Cincinnati’s interurban network, 1912.

• Fig. 4.3.    Cincinnati’s unfinished subway, 1929.

Transit Is Not a Panacea: The Cleveland Waterfront Line

• Fig. 5.1.    Map of Greater Cleveland (not online).

• Fig. 5.2.    Early interurban electric railways in Northeast Ohio, 1898.

• Fig. 5.3.    Cleveland’s 1955 subway proposal.

• Fig. 5.4.    Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit, 2022.

They Don't Build Them Like They Used To

• Fig. 6.1.    Map of Greater Dallas (not online).

• Fig. 6.2.    Dallas Railway streetcars and connecting interurban service, 1919.

• Fig. 6.3.    Dallas Area Rapid Transit, 2022.

The City-Suburban Rift and the Most Useless Transit System in the World

• Fig. 7.1.    Map of Metro Detroit (not online).

• Fig. 7.2.    Detroit United Railway streetcar and interurban lines, 1905.

• Fig. 7.3.    Subway proposal, released 1918.

• Fig. 7.4.    SEMTA subway proposal, 1974.

• Fig. 7.5.    Detroit People Mover and QLine streetcar, 2022.

The City of Organic Growth

• Fig. 8.1.    Map of Greater Houston (not online).

• Fig. 8.2.    Houston City Street Railway, 1895.

• Fig. 8.3.    Harris County METRORail, 2022.

Suburban Sprawl and the Legacy of the Pacific Electric Railway

• Fig. 9.1.    Map of Greater Los Angeles (not online).

• Fig. 9.2.    “Red Car” system of the Pacific Electric Railway, 1926.

• Fig. 9.3.    “Rail Rapid Transit Now” proposal, 1948.

• Fig. 9.4.    RTD subway proposal, 1968.

• Fig. 9.5.    Baxter Ward’s subway proposal, 1976.

• Fig. 9.6.    Los Angeles Metro, 2023.

Transit, Real Estate, Overpromise, Underdeliver

• Fig. 10.1.    Map of Greater Miami (not online).

• Fig. 10.2.    Early Miami streetcar systems, 1926.

• Fig. 10.3.    Proposed Metrorail system, 1979.

• Fig. 10.4.    The People’s Transportation Plan, 2002.

• Fig. 10.5.    Miami Metrorail and connecting services, 2022.

How a Crooked Lawyer, a Wall Street Banker, and the Mob Took Over the Twin Cities’ Streetcars

• Fig. 11.1.    Map of the Twin Cities (not online).

• Fig. 11.2.    Twin City Rapid Transit’s streetcar network, 1948.

• Fig. 11.3.    Metro Transit, 2022.

The Metro as Showcase Megaproject

• Fig. 12.1.    Map of Greater Montreal (not online).

• Fig. 12.2.    Montreal Tramways Company streetcar network, 1923.

• Fig. 12.3.    Proposed metro system, 1944.

• Fig. 12.4.    Proposed metro system, 1953.

• Fig. 12.5.    Montreal Metro, 2023.

How a Big City Grew into a Small Town

• Fig. 13.1.    Map of Greater New Orleans (not online).

• Fig. 13.2.    New Orleans Public Service Inc.’s streetcar network, 1945.

• Fig. 13.3.    Monorail Inc.’s monorail proposal, 1959.

• Fig. 13.4.    RTA streetcar system, 2022.

The Tortured History of the Second Avenue Subway

• Fig. 14.1.    Map of New York City (not online).

• Fig. 14.2.    Hugh Willson’s Metropolitan Railroad proposal, 1865.

• Fig. 14.3.    Elevated lines of Manhattan, with connecting streetcars and cable cars, 1899.

• Fig. 14.4.    Brooklyn Rapid Transit elevated lines, 1912.

• Fig. 14.5.    New York City subway and elevated lines, 1939.

• Fig. 14.6.    The MTA’s 1968 Program for Action.

• Fig. 14.7.    New York City Subway, 2022.

SEPTA and the Commuter Tunnel, or, How Not to Run a Railroad

• Fig. 15.1.    Map of Greater Philadelphia (not online).

• Fig. 15.2.    Horsecars and urban steam railroads of Philadelphia, 1875.

• Fig. 15.3.    Philadelphia Transportation Co. and connecting services, 1940.

• Fig. 15.4.    SEPTA trolleys and rapid transit, 1974.

• Fig. 15.5.    Vuchic plan for commuter tunnel service, 1984.

• Fig. 15.6.    SEPTA rapid transit and regional rail, 2022.

How to Make Buses Work: The Busways of Pittsburgh

• Fig. 16.1.    Map of Greater Pittsburgh (not online).

• Fig. 16.2.    Pittsburgh Railways trolleys, 1954.

• Fig. 16.3.    Skybus proposal, 1967.

• Fig. 16.4.    Port Authority Transit, 2022.

The First Streetcar System

•  Fig. 17.1.    Map of Richmond (not online).

• Fig. 17.2.    Streetcars, horsecars, and urban steam railroads of Richmond, 1891.

The Only City to Open a Subway, Then Close It

• Fig. 18.1.    Map of Rochester (not online).

• Fig. 18.2.    Rochester subway and connecting streetcars, 1929.

The View from Geary Street: The Bay Area’s Transport and Housing Crisis

• Fig. 19.1.    Map of the San Francisco Bay Area (not online).

• Fig. 19.2.    Cable car system, 1892.

• Fig. 19.3.    Muni and Market Street Railway streetcar lines, 1929.

• Fig. 19.4.    Early BART system plans, 1960.

• Fig. 19.5.    Muni Rapid proposal, 1966.

• Fig. 19.6.    BART and connecting services, 2022.

Light Rail Versus Monorail, or, Consensus Through Exhaustion

• Fig. 20.1.    Map of Greater Seattle (not online).

• Fig. 20.2.    Early Seattle streetcar and cable car system, 1896.

• Fig. 20.3.    The subway proposal of Forward Thrust 1970.

• Fig. 20.4.    Initiative 41’s proposed monorail, 1997.

• Fig. 20.5.    Link light rail, 2022.

The Political Football: Toronto’s Second Downtown Subway

• Fig. 21.1.    Map of the Greater Toronto Area (not online).

• Fig. 21.2.    Jacobs and Davies subway proposal, 1910.

• Fig. 21.3.    TTC streetcars, 1932.

• Fig. 21.4.    Proposed subway and underground streetcar routes, 1945.

• Fig. 21.5.    Network 2011, as proposed by Bill Davis’s Tories, 1985.

• Fig. 21.6.    Comparison of Doug Ford’s Ontario Line and the scuttled Relief Line, 2019.

• Fig. 21.7.    Toronto Subway, 2022.

Why Vancouver Built an Elevated

• Fig. 22.1.    Map of Greater Vancouver (not online).

• Fig. 22.2.    British Columbia Electric Railway streetcar and interurban network, 1945.

• Fig. 22.3.    Proposed rapid transit system, 1970.

• Fig. 22.4.    SkyTrain and connecting services, 2022.

The Freeway Revolt and the Creation of Metro

• Fig. 23.1.    Map of Greater Washington (not online).

• Fig. 23.2.    Capital Transit streetcars, 1942.

• Fig. 23.3.    Proposed downtown subways, 1944.

• Fig. 23.4.    NCTA’s proposed subway and commuter rail lines, 1962.

• Fig. 23.5.    Washington Metro, 2022, with cancelled downtown freeways.