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The Orange County Register’s Freedom Politics website (check out my rent control article FreePo published in March) features articles discussing two differing takes on road privatization from notable scholars Walter Block and Robert Poole. In Robert Poole’s article, he discusses the merits of the increasingly popular use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to [...] May 7th, 2009 | Tags: fascism, Private Roads, privatization, Public-Private Partnerships, Robert Poole, socialism, Walter Block | Category: corruption, Economics, infrastructure, privatization, Transportation | 10 comments |
 printable viewChris Bradford over at Austin Contrarian has been making some solid points in favor of congestion pricing. (here, here, here and here) Chris’s core argument in favor of congestion tolling is that: congestion pricing does more than relieve congestion. Congestion pricing tells us when a road needs more capacity. Additional capacity costs money, [...] April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Chris Bradford, congestion, congestion pricing, price signals, Private Roads, taffic flow, traffic, Transportation | Category: Economics, infrastructure, privatization, sprawl, Transportation | 28 comments |
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Some other things to ponder for the next time you are sitting on a congested highway… When I talk to people about tolling roads, most people immediately reject the idea entirely. I like to ask them to think about it next time they are in a traffic jam. Hey, if you sit [...] March 16th, 2009 | Tags: congestion, congestion pricing, highways, John Stossel, Private Roads, privatization | Category: privatization, Transportation | 17 comments |
printable viewBart Frazier wrote a brief article for the Future of Freedom Foundation on private roads. He begins by discussing how most Americans remain strongly opposed to privately owned roads, while at the same time many have warmed to private education, medicine, and social security. This first part of the article is somewhat similar [...] January 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Bart Frazier, Dulles Greenway, highways, libertarian, Private Roads, roads | Category: privatization, Transportation | 18 comments |
printable viewRecently, I came accross an article by Charles Johnson, who blogs at Rad Geek. The article had linked to a Market Urbanism post about how user fees and gas taxes fall well short of funding road use in the US. Charles’ article further debunks the Urbanism Legend asserted by free-market imposters that a [...] December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Economics, eminent domain, gasoline, highways, infrastructure, Interstate Highway System, libertarian, privatization | Category: privatization, Transportation | 6 comments |
printable viewOf course, Chicago is just privatizing the revenue from meters, not the actual parking spaces. Plus, the city will regulate rate increases, but it’s a step in the right direction. (right?) For today’s politicians, this is a great way to get windfalls of money today for revenues of future generations in order [...] December 2nd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, parking, parking meters, privatization | Category: privatization, video | 25 comments |
printable viewDaniel Nairn at Discovering Urbanism brings up a great point about cul-de-sacs. Are they public goods, or truly unnecessary “socialism in its most extreme form”? Take the standard cul-de-sac that serves a handful of households. The purpose of this design is to exclude the general public from passing through while serving the automotive [...] November 18th, 2008 | Tags: cul-de-sac, Daniel Nairn, DOT, driveway, network, socialism, Transportation, Urbanism, Virginia | Category: privatization, Transportation | 28 comments |
printable viewAlex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution – Now is the Time for the Buffalo Commons: The Federal Government owns more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Alaska and it owns nearly half of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming. See the map for more. It is time for a sale. Selling [...] November 13th, 2008 | Tags: federal, public land | Category: Environment, privatization | 7 comments |
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