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For 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 [...] August 20th, 2008 | Tags: competition, congestion, highways, history, Lew Rockwell, milton friedman, podcast, privatization, roads, socialism, Walter Block | Category: Economics, privatization, Transportation | Leave a comment |
 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 [...] July 22nd, 2008 | Tags: buffalo grove, Chicago, congestion, lincoln square, sprawl | Category: sprawl, video | 2 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 [...] July 18th, 2008 | Tags: congestion, density, Free-market, reason, Sam Staley, transit | Category: Free-market impostors, planning, zoning | 6 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 [...] June 10th, 2008 | Tags: Building, congestion, construction, density, development, Free-market, housing, infrastructure | Category: Economics, housing, Transportation, zoning | 8 comments |
printable viewToday, I was listening to CATO’s Daily Podcast about transportation with Samuel Staley of the Reason Foundation. I started listening to him talk about the best ways to plan highway systems and said to myself, “Oh boy, here we go again another so-called “free-market” person talking about how the government can ‘pave our [...] June 10th, 2008 | Tags: CATO, congestion, highways, privatization, roads, Sam Staley, tolls, Transportation | Category: privatization, Transportation | 15 comments |
printable viewDrew Carey discusses private alternatives to socialized highways that promote sprawl. April 13th, 2008 | Tags: congestion, Drew Carey, Gridlock, highways, LA, privatization, reason, sprawl, tolls, video | Category: sprawl, Transportation, video | Leave a comment |
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