I tend to agree that there is some hypocrisy in the conservative/libertarian world when it comes to transportation, which is part of the reason I started this blog. A more free-market transporation system would certainly lead to a more urban land use pattern; something between pre-auto, transit-reliant density and current auto-reliant sprawling suburbs. Regardless, market-based [...]
I favor Bob Poole’s solution:
“The longer-term solution is to scrap the 20th-century tax-and-grant system in favor of universal tolling, managed by each state’s Department of Transportation and private toll companies.”
Furthermore, get the federal government out of the business of subsidizing highways altogether and allow the states to privatize them. It would shift the cost [...]
The Antiplanner discusses how well-intentioned agencies become wasteful government-planning bureaucracies.
The mal-investment in our socialist highway system and the resulting congestion, pollution, disrepair, and sprawl come to mind. Using smart growth, modern day planners are trying to correct the lack of foresight of the planners and politicians of past generations who brought us [...]
Drew Carey discusses private alternatives to socialized highways that promote sprawl.
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