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Trams, Buses, and Rails recounts the unique and little-known 130-year history of Bangkok's transportation system, from the first horse-powered tramway in 1888 to the mass transit urban railway of the twenty-first century. Using government archives and annual reports, the author deftly pieces together long-buried records and statistics to reconstruct the transportation policies of each successive metropolitan and national administration. He highlights the politicization and regulation of Bangkok's transport systems over the decades, and uncovers a series of setbacks, reversals, duplications, revisions, and cancellations that help to explain Bangkok's continuing transportation woes. A series of maps and tables elucidate the development of transportation routes and the rise and fall of the city's trams, railways, and bus lines.Product Identifiers
PublisherSilkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP
ISBN-139786162150807
eBay Product ID (ePID)209686750
Product Key Features
Number of Pages452 Pages
Publication NameTrams, Buses, and Rails: the History of Urban Transport in Bangkok, 1886-2010
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSustainability, History
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
AuthorIchiro Kakizaki
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight522 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureThailand
Title_AuthorIchiro Kakizaki