I probably won’t make any friends today, but now I’ve read one too many urbanist (many who’s ideas I usually respect) use unsound logic to support high speed rail. This argument often includes something like this: “…and furthermore, highways and airports don’t come close to paying for themselves, therefore high speed rail need not [...]
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August 31st, 2009 | Tags: airports, boondoggles, carbon, CATO, construction, cost-benefit analysis, high speed rail, highways, Matthew Yglesias, Randall O'Toole, ryan avent, Transportation, tyler cowen | Category: Economics, Environment, Free-market impostors, Transportation, infrastructure | Comments |
 printable viewAt Streetsblog, Ryan Avent presented a scorching attack on the most notorious free-market impostor – Randal O’Toole: Taking Liberties With the Facts for his consistent hypocrisy: The Cato Institute’s Randal O’Toole gets under the skin of many of those interested in building a more rational and green metropolitan geography, but in many ways he’s an ideal [...] June 4th, 2009 | Tags: gas tax, Highway, Randall O'Toole, subsidization, Transportation | Category: Free-market impostors, Transportation, infrastructure, sprawl | Comments |
printable viewIn his last two urbanism-related posts, Matthew Yglesias makes great points only to dissolve them in a vat of unrelated statements posed as conclusions. His logical inconsistency seems to invalidate his otherwise pretty good blogging on urbanism. A couple days ago, Matthew blogged about regulation of neighborhood retail, quoting a DC blog: “In DC, zoning laws make [...] May 29th, 2009 | Tags: Matthew Yglesias, planning, Randall O'Toole, Transportation, zoning | Category: Free-market impostors, Transportation, planning, zoning | Comments |
printable viewIn a post blogger Eric Orozco called, ‘forerunner candidate for “most incisive blog post” of the year,’ Daniel Nairn of Discovering Urbanism discussed the seemingly conflicted camps of libertarianism when it comes to Urbanism. His observations are based upon the comments in the Volokh article on planning and walkability linked in the previous post. Daniel (a [...] May 20th, 2009 | Tags: Ayn Rand, Frank Lloyd Wright, libertarian, milton friedman, Randall O'Toole | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, planning, sprawl | Comments |
printable viewI threw up Friday’s Redistribution post somewhat hastily during my break, but there isn’t much more that I haven’t said before. As a follow-up, I’d like to tie it in with some other interesting reads. Ryan Avent at The Bellows agreed with Yglesias’ post and added: Anyway, I saw in Google reader that libertarian intellectual Will Wilkinson [...] January 26th, 2009 | Tags: affordable housing, CATO, Ed Glaeser, Free-market, glaeser, highways, libertarian, progressivism, sprawl, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors | Comments |
printable viewAs Washington debates how many hundreds-of-billions of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus will go towards infrastructure or to other spending/tax cut schemes, pundits claim that spending billions on “shovel ready” public works projects can effectively create jobs that will lead to recovery. As readers probably know, I am skeptical that the anticipated spending could be activated [...] January 12th, 2009 | Tags: boondoggles, budgets, construction, government, highways, infrastructure, paul krugman, roads, stimulus, Transportation, tyler cowen | Category: Economics, Free-market impostors, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, corruption | Comments |
printable viewMatt Yglesias is one of the best mainstream bloggers on land use/transportation that I know of. As one blogger (who I don’t recall right now) once said, his urban planning and transportation posts could be blogs in their own right. However, it’s puzzling that in an article for Cato Unbound, he comes up [...] November 12th, 2008 | Tags: free market urbanism, private transit, public transit, Randall O'Toole, Stephen Smith | Category: Free-market impostors, Transportation, zoning | Comments |
printable viewReason Magazine, the Reason Foundation, and Cato are generally pretty okay libertarian standard-bearers, but they lose serious libertarian cred when it comes to land use. In those areas, they’ve been completely co-opted by hacks like Randal O’Toole, Wendell Cox, and Robert Poole, who take every opportunity to bash the budding New Urbanist movement over [...] November 6th, 2008 | Tags: free market urbanism, Randall O'Toole, Robert Poole, Stephen Smith, Urbanism, Wendell Cox | Category: Free-market impostors, zoning | Comments |
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