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 viewIn his last two urbanism-related posts, Matthew Yglesias makes great points only to dissolve them in a vat of unrelated statements posed as conclusions. His logical inconsistency seems to invalidate his otherwise pretty good blogging on urbanism. A couple days ago, Matthew blogged about regulation of neighborhood retail, quoting a DC blog: “In [...] May 29th, 2009 | Tags: Matthew Yglesias, planning, Randal O'Toole, Transportation, zoning | Category: Free-market impostors, planning, Transportation, zoning | 16 comments |
printable viewDiscussing Ithaca, New York’s plan to increase permitted density and reduce parking minimums, I can dig what Matthew Yglesias says : The distributive impact of parking minimums is to redistribute income from people who don’t own cars to people who do own cars—not to shift income from poor to rich. A rich family [...] January 23rd, 2009 | Tags: density, Environment, housing, Matthew Yglesias, parking | Category: Economics, housing, parking | Leave a comment |
printable viewBrendan Crain at Where tipped me off to a great post by Ryan Avent at The Bellows. Here’s a little snippet of Shortage: For whatever reason, we’re not built to naturally internalize negative externalities. When riding on a crowded highway, no one (no non-economist, at any rate) curses the government for not making [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: anti-market bias, Chicago, government, highways, Matthew Yglesias, parking, Shortages, traffic | Category: Economics, parking, Transportation | Leave a comment |
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