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Mathieu Helie at Emergent Urbanism posted a link to a interesting game created at the University of Minnesota. Mathieu explains it better than I can: The game begins in the Stalinian Central Bureau of Traffic Control, where a wrinkly old man pulls you out of your job at the mail room to come save [...] August 14th, 2009 | Tags: cambodia, congestion, Gridlock, planning, roads, safety, signals, streets, traffic, Transportation | Category: Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, planning, video | 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, and drivers are [...] April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Chris Bradford, congestion, congestion pricing, price signals, Private Roads, taffic flow, traffic, Transportation | Category: Economics, Transportation, infrastructure, privatization, sprawl | Comments |
printable viewSome 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 in traffic, you probably [...] March 16th, 2009 | Tags: congestion, congestion pricing, highways, John Stossel, Private Roads, privatization | Category: Transportation, privatization | Comments |
printable viewThanks to Dan and Benjamin for separately tipping me off to this link: Like nearly all U.S. cities, D.C. has requirements for off-street parking. Whenever anything new is built — be it a single-family home, an apartment building, a store or a doctor’s office — a minimum [...] September 22nd, 2008 | Tags: congestion, dc, housing, parking, planning | Category: parking | Comments |
printable viewFor quite some time, Economist Walter Block has been one of the more radical thinkers when it comes to advocating free market solutions. Many of his writings on roads and rent control are featured in the Links to Articles, Academic Papers and Books page. Today’s Lew Rockwell Podcast features an interview with Professor Block discussing [...] August 20th, 2008 | Tags: competition, congestion, highways, history, Lew Rockwell, milton friedman, podcast, privatization, roads, socialism, Walter Block | Category: Economics, Transportation, privatization | Comments |
printable viewI enjoyed this short video that compares Chicago’s Lincoln Square, where I have lived and Buffalo Grove, which is a suburb similar to where I grew up. The video was produced by CEOs for Cities, a Chicago based organization that advocates for cities. Their website gives this description: A new analysis shows that high gas prices [...] July 22nd, 2008 | Tags: buffalo grove, Chicago, congestion, lincoln square, sprawl | Category: sprawl, video | Comments |
printable viewThat is, he argues that private property should be subject to government planning restrictions if a developer building densely on its property creates a traffic burden on government roads. Wooten points out that any solution to Atlanta’s traffic congestion has to focus on roads, not transit or land use. In a more interesting twist, he takes [...] July 18th, 2008 | Tags: congestion, density, Free-market, reason, Sam Staley, transit | Category: Free-market impostors, planning, zoning | Comments |
printable viewMatthew Yglesias – What Price Density The solution, as Ryan Avent says, is to build denser communities. We ought to build more transit infrastructure, of course, but it’s cheaper to use what we already have more intensively. And, of course, it’s more practical to build new infrastructure if there’s a reasonable expectation that it will serve [...] June 10th, 2008 | Tags: Building, congestion, construction, density, development, Free-market, housing, infrastructure | Category: Economics, Transportation, housing, zoning | Comments |
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