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 [...]
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August 31st, 2009 | Tags: airports, boondoggles, carbon, CATO, construction, cost-benefit analysis, high speed rail, highways, Matthew Yglesias, Randal O'Toole, ryan avent, Transportation, tyler cowen | Category: Economics, Environment, Free-market impostors, infrastructure, Transportation | 18 comments |
 printable viewThis post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) Last week President-elect Obama announced some [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: Barack Obama, carbon, Henry Hazlitt, infrastructure, Market, stimulus, subsidization, Urbanism | Category: Environment, sprawl, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends | 18 comments |
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