I’ve been reading Stephen Goddard’s Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century, and it’s a great book with lots of excerpable content, but here’s one thing that caught my eye on page 170. I should note that when Goddard talks about “the highwaymen,” he’s talking about the old [...]
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April 26th, 2011 | Tags: books, highways, history | Category: Free-market impostors | 4 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 of [...] February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: congestion, don boudreaux, Economics, highways, public good, public transit, roads | Category: Economics, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends | 51 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 revenues [...] February 8th, 2011 | Tags: dc, gas tax, highways, Maryland | Category: infrastructure, Transportation | 3 comments | 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 per [...] 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 great. [...] January 25th, 2011 | Tags: gas tax, highways, history | Category: Economics, history, infrastructure, Transportation | 4 comments | printable viewThe WaPo earlier this week ran an editorial against California high-speed rail, and on Friday ran a response from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. As the dedicated anti-California HSR blog High-Speed Train Talk says, the letter does a pretty good job of summing up everything that’s wrong with the guy. The letter starts off with [...] January 15th, 2011 | Tags: California, high speed rail, highways, protectionism, Ray LaHood | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments | printable view1. Planners in the Twin Cities have decided to “back away from the age-old compact in which the state tries to keep pace with suburban expansion” (i.e., they’re canceling new outer road projects) and add toll/bus lanes to highways in the inner metro area. Republican governor and business on one side, Republican voters on [...] October 10th, 2010 | Tags: dc, highways, nyc, Philadelphia, Stephen Smith, Twin Cities | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith Among liberals in the planning profession today, the story of the Great American Streetcar Conspiracy is widely known. There are more nuanced variants, but it goes something like this: Streetcars were once plentiful and efficient, but then along came a bunch of car and oil companies like General Motors and Standard [...] September 23rd, 2010 | Tags: highways, mass transit, progressivism, Stephen Smith | Category: Uncategorized | 44 comments | printable view |
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