In the past Market Urbanism has been lukewarm on parking “privatization” (Adam on Chicago and me on LA), but I’m becoming more and more convinced that it’s a bad idea. To start off with, these “privatizations” are actually private contracting schemes – the “owners” are barely even allowed to set their own prices, nevermind [...]
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December 11th, 2010 | Tags: New Jersey, parking, privatization, transit | Category: Uncategorized | 10 comments |  printable viewby Stephen Smith Transit activists have been bemoaning recent cuts in the MTA’s bus routes throughout New York City, but the cuts may have a silver lining, in particular for market urbanists: they may usher in the return of private buses to the streets of New York City. Private buses (and subways, and streetcars) [...] August 16th, 2010 | Tags: buses, nyc, privatization, Stephen Smith, unions | Category: privatization, Transportation | 6 comments | printable viewMaybe the delay in posts led you to believe the Rothbard Series was complete. The good news is that there are a few more posts to go, and the ones coming up next should be the most interesting to urbanists. If you haven’t kept up with our discussion, Murray Rothbard’s classic For A [...] October 19th, 2009 | Tags: emergence, For a New Liberty, Free-market, Murray Rothbard, Private Roads, private streets, privatization, railways, standardization, Transportation | Category: infrastructure, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist, Transportation | 4 comments | printable viewIn the last post, we discussed the first paragraphs of chapter 11 of Murray Rothbard’s For A New Liberty. (available free from Mises.org as pdf, web page, and audio book) Those paragraphs discussed the private ownership of all land, including streets and roads. Rothbard clearly and concisely argues that private ownership of streets would [...] June 18th, 2009 | Tags: For a New Liberty, forestalling, Murray Rothbard, privatization | Category: Economics, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist | 6 comments | printable viewIt turns out the entire Chapter 11 called “The Public Sector, II: Streets and Roads” is actually a chapter on Market Urbanism. Bryan Caplan considers this chapter “the least convincing chapter in the book”, but as a Market Urbanist, I strongly disagree. I do admit that his discussion of safety and policing of private local streets involves a great deal of speculation and reliance on faith in the action of individual agents, but the insights into road subsidization and land-use patterns was decades ahead of its time. These insights may not seem so radical now, but imagine the resistance to these ideas in the days before urbanism gained much credibility. [...] June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: For a New Liberty, Jane Jacobs, Murray Rothbard, private streets, privatization, safety | Category: Economics, infrastructure, planning, privatization, Rothbard The Urbanist, Transportation, zoning | 6 comments | printable viewThe Orange County Register’s Freedom Politics website (check out my rent control article FreePo published in March) features articles discussing two differing takes on road privatization from notable scholars Walter Block and Robert Poole. In Robert Poole’s article, he discusses the merits of the increasingly popular use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to fund [...] May 7th, 2009 | Tags: fascism, Private Roads, privatization, Public-Private Partnerships, Robert Poole, socialism, Walter Block | Category: corruption, Economics, infrastructure, privatization, Transportation | 10 comments | printable view
Some other things to ponder for the next time you are sitting on a congested highway… When I talk to people about tolling roads, most people immediately reject the idea entirely. I like to ask them to think about it next time they are in a traffic jam. Hey, if you sit in [...] March 16th, 2009 | Tags: congestion, congestion pricing, highways, John Stossel, Private Roads, privatization | Category: privatization, Transportation | 17 comments | printable viewRecently, I came accross an article by Charles Johnson, who blogs at Rad Geek. The article had linked to a Market Urbanism post about how user fees and gas taxes fall well short of funding road use in the US. Charles’ article further debunks the Urbanism Legend asserted by free-market imposters that a free-market [...] December 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Economics, eminent domain, gasoline, highways, infrastructure, Interstate Highway System, libertarian, privatization | Category: privatization, Transportation | 6 comments | printable view |
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