Equal or Better: The Story of the Silver Line.
Carter, Kristopher.
2011
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Abstract: In 1987 the Washington Street Elevated train was torn down and
community members awaited rapid replacement service between Dudley Station in Roxbury and
Downtown Boston. Commuters boarded busses each day and finally in 2002 the official
replacement, the Silver Line, opened. It too was a bus, touting the benefits of bus rapid
transit but lacking the infrastructure to uphold the `rapid' ... read moremoniker. This document
supports the documentary film: Equal or Better: The Story of the Silver Line and explores
the larger issues of transit equity and mode choice for the replacement service project.
The film interviews community members, state officials, and transit riders and attempts to
unearth how well the Silver Line fulfills the promise of "equal to or better than" transit
service made to the neighborhoods. With such a subjective question comes a subjective
answer dependent upon neighborhood, race, and class. The film can be found in the Tufts
Univesity library coolection and online at
ww.smallcraftadvisoryproductions.com
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2011.
Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.
Advisor: Penn Loh.
Committee: Barbara Parmenter.
Keywords: Environmental justice, and Transportation planning.read less - ID:
- 6d570845h
- Component ID:
- tufts:20764
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