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Of course, Chicago is just privatizing the revenue from meters, not the actual parking spaces. Plus, the city will regulate rate increases, but it’s a step in the right direction. (right?) For today’s politicians, this is a great way to get windfalls of money today for revenues of future generations in order [...] December 2nd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, parking, parking meters, privatization | Category: privatization, video | 25 comments |
 printable viewCongestion pricing schemes, touted as environmentally-responsible at the time of $4 gas, were defeated in New York City last Spring. However, as the market turmoil threatens to wreak havoc on tax revenues, fiscal necessity has lured New York State and New York City politicians to re-examine the political viability of [...] November 13th, 2008 | Tags: bridges, congestion pricing, history, nyc, privatization, tolls | Category: privatization, Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewFor quite some time, Economist Walter Block has been one of the more radical thinkers when it comes to advocating free market solutions. Many of his writings on roads and rent control are featured in the Links to Articles, Academic Papers and Books page. Today’s Lew Rockwell Podcast features an interview with Professor [...] August 20th, 2008 | Tags: competition, congestion, highways, history, Lew Rockwell, milton friedman, podcast, privatization, roads, socialism, Walter Block | Category: Economics, privatization, Transportation | Leave a comment |
printable viewDon Boudreaux to the Washington Times: LETTER TO EDITOR: Roads don’t need new taxes Thursday, July 24, 2008 Upset that Virginians’ taxes were not recently raised to construct more roads, State Delegate Brian J. Moran, Alexandria and Fairfax Democrat, declares that “Government has an important role to play in strengthening our infrastructure, developing [...] July 24th, 2008 | Tags: don boudreaux, privatization, roads, taxes, Transportation, Virginia | Category: Economics, privatization, Transportation | One comment |
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 viewI found a link to a great article at FreeColorado.com. It doesn’t apply to urbanism specifically, but conceptually deals with privatization of publicly owned land. Free Colorado – Should Government Own Wilderness? The original article was from Grand Junction Free Press – Armstrong Column: Should the government own, manage wilderness? here’s a few [...] June 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Environment, politics, privatization, Sierra Club, wilderness | Category: privatization | 4 comments |
printable viewToday, I was listening to CATO’s Daily Podcast about transportation with Samuel Staley of the Reason Foundation. I started listening to him talk about the best ways to plan highway systems and said to myself, “Oh boy, here we go again another so-called “free-market” person talking about how the government can ‘pave our [...] June 10th, 2008 | Tags: CATO, congestion, highways, privatization, roads, Sam Staley, tolls, Transportation | Category: privatization, Transportation | 15 comments |
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