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Links, links, links! 1. The Washington City Paper has a great expose on street food in DC called “Inside D.C.’s Food-Truck Wars” with the subtitle “How some of Washington’s most powerful interests are trying to curb the city’s most popular new cuisine.” 2. Mary Newsom at the Charlotte Observer thinks it’s a bad [...] September 25th, 2010 | Tags: buses, congestion pricing, food, private transit, public housing, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
 printable viewBack a couple years ago, I noted an Econtalk podcast with Russell Roberts and Duke University Professor Mike Munger on the private bus system in Santiago, Chile. This week’s episode starts with Munger’s update on the Santiago transportation system after visiting for three weeks and spending a lot of time traveling the city’s buses [...] August 24th, 2010 | Tags: buses, Economics, econtalk, munger, private transit, public transit, Russell Roberts, santiago, traffic, transit | Category: Economics, privatization, Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewMatt Yglesias is one of the best mainstream bloggers on land use/transportation that I know of. As one blogger (who I don’t recall right now) once said, his urban planning and transportation posts could be blogs in their own right. However, it’s puzzling that in an article for Cato Unbound, he comes up [...] November 12th, 2008 | Tags: free market urbanism, private transit, public transit, Randal O'Toole, Stephen Smith | Category: Free-market impostors, Transportation, zoning | 17 comments |
printable view[photo: flickr: moriah] In a perfect tie-in to yesterday’s EconTalk podcast on public transportation, Ikea’s new Brooklyn store provides free bus and ferry service to locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Not only is it free, but it’s nicer than the $2/ride public alternative. Most interestingly, neighbors of the new store in [...] July 8th, 2008 | Tags: brooklyn, ferry, ikea, nyc, private transit, privatization, red hook | Category: privatization, Transportation | 8 comments |
printable viewI regularly listen to Russel Robert’s EconTalk podcasts. This week’s podcast with Michael Munger from Duke University is particularly interesting, and possibly my favorite, along with the Milton Friedman interview. Photo by Flikr user Silvia Sugasti Professor Munger had just returned from Santiago, Chile with some great insight into their transportation system. [...] July 7th, 2008 | Tags: chile, econtalk, interview, munger, podcast, private transit, privatization, Russell Roberts, santiago, subway, transit | Category: Economics, planning, privatization, Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewStephen Smith at rationalitate picked up on a Wired article and posted Thomas Edison builds the first el: today is 125th anniversary of the debut of Thomas Edison’s elevated electric railway demonstration in Chicago. The project was financed with $2 million in private funds, through the newly-incorporated Electric Railway Company. It’s enough to [...] June 2nd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, chicago's L, CTA, Electric Railway Company, private transit, Thomas Edison, transit, Transportation | Category: Transportation | 8 comments |
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