In the Washington Post Brad Plumer editorializes on the choice of many Americans to accept longer commutes by car in exchange for larger homes far from their workplaces. He says that consumers are unable to accurately calculate the cost of their commutes, including time spent driving, leading them to make “irrational” choices about [...]
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Stephen has previously written on DC Metro’s potential to make money by leasing its valuable real estate to vendors, but Metro officials have now further entrenched the organization against making efficient use of its property. WMATA denied a weekend farmers market use of the parking lot at the Naylor Road station. The Washington Post reports, “Angela Gates, a [...] In the last post, commenter AWP helped me realize that the marshmallow mountain analogy could be improved upon, since one person eating a marshmallow prevented another person from eating that same marshmallow. But the road cannot be subdivided as simply. Yes, a nit-picky implication of the vagueness of the term “good”, but I want to [...] February 24th, 2011 | Tags: public good | Category: Economics, infrastructure, Transportation | 5 comments |
 printable viewIn a recent post, commenter Jeremy H. helped point out that the use of the term “public good” is grossly abused in the case of transportation. Even Nobel economists refer to roads as ”important examples of production of public goods,” ( Samuelson and Nordhaus 1985: 48-49). I’d like to spend a little more time dispensing [...] February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: congestion, don boudreaux, Economics, highways, public good, public transit, roads | Category: Economics, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends | 50 comments |
printable viewBen Ross at Greater Greater Washington has an excellent post about the pernicious habit of states (and maybe the federal government?) mislabeling sales taxes as user fees. Sorry for pulling such a long bit, but it’s good: Maryland is considering raising its gas tax. This long-overdue measure would allow some of the general [...] February 8th, 2011 | Tags: dc, gas tax, highways, Maryland | Category: infrastructure, Transportation | 3 comments |
printable view1. Systemic Failure calls out the Bay Area for giving an award to a textbook example of greenwashing in urbanism: Ironically, this project was recently promoted on the SF-Streetsblog website by “New Urbanist” developer Peter Calthrope for its “highest level” of green technology. What does it say for the Bay Area environmental community, [...] February 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area, gas tax, history, LA | Category: Economics, history, Transportation | One comment |
printable viewPeter Gordon blogs about a paper he presented at the Transportation Research Board conference in DC: My friends and I just presented this paper at the Transportation Research Board meetings in Washington DC. We tested the effects of tolling Los Angeles’ freeways in the peak hours (we tested 10 cents and 30 cents [...] February 2nd, 2011 | Tags: congestion pricing, highways | Category: infrastructure, Transportation | 11 comments |
printable viewI just started reading Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880-1956by Michael R. Fein, and though I don’t have time to talk as much about it as I’d like, I will say that I’m only a couple pages in and I can already tell it’s going to be [...] January 25th, 2011 | Tags: gas tax, highways, history | Category: Economics, history, infrastructure, Transportation | 4 comments |
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