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by Stephen Smith Matt Yglesias points to an article about Toronto’s new zoning code. The story is short on details, although the lowering of parking minimums near transit and overall simplification of the code seem like appealing features to Market Urbanists. I did, however, find a blog post from last year about the [...] August 27th, 2010 | Tags: CATO, New Urbanism, parking, Randal O'Toole, reason, Stephen Smith, Toronto, zoning | Category: zoning | 2 comments |
 printable viewby Stephen Smith Among urban planners, libertarianism gets a pretty bad rap. Melissa Lafsky at the Infrastructurist goes so far as to call libertarianism “an enemy of infrastructure,” and dismisses entirely the idea that private industry can build infrastructure with a single hyperlink – to a poorly-written article on New Zealand’s economy written over [...] August 25th, 2010 | Tags: libertarianism, reason, Stephen Smith | Category: Economics, infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation | 26 comments |
printable viewIn the comments of my most recent post, insightful commenter, OldUrbanism pointed out some items that need attention: The last two factors, legal costs associated with eminent domain and opportunity costs of land, are in fact often included in typical project cost estimates for both public and private projects. The former is fairly [...] September 6th, 2009 | Tags: correction, Ed Glaeser, Jane Jacobs, reason, robert moses, Sam Staley | Category: infrastructure, Jane Jacobs, Transportation | One comment |
printable viewJim Powell’s latest article at Reason discusses the Tennessee Valley Authority, FDR’s most ambitious infrastructure program: It was heralded as a program to build dams that would control floods, facilitate navigation, lift people out of poverty, and help America recover from the Great Depression. Yet the reality is that the TVA probably flooded [...] March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: infrastructure, reason, Roosevelt, TVA | Category: Economics, infrastructure | 6 comments |
printable view“] My Other Bike is a Public Transportation System by Greg Beato at Reason.com: A bike delivers a strong sense of autonomy, too—stronger even than a car in many ways. It doesn’t, for example, require a license, registration, insurance. You aren’t beholden to routes or schedules. You go where you want, when you [...] September 11th, 2008 | Tags: bicycles, City, DC SmartBike, reason, Transportation | Category: Environment, Transportation | 6 comments |
printable viewThat is, he argues that private property should be subject to government planning restrictions if a developer building densely on its property creates a traffic burden on government roads. Wooten points out that any solution to Atlanta’s traffic congestion has to focus on roads, not transit or land use. In a more interesting [...] July 18th, 2008 | Tags: congestion, density, Free-market, reason, Sam Staley, transit | Category: Free-market impostors, planning, zoning | 6 comments |
printable viewI 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. [...] April 19th, 2008 | Tags: congestion pricing, density, Free-market, highways, libertarian, politics, reason, Transportation | Category: Transportation | 3 comments |
printable viewDrew Carey discusses private alternatives to socialized highways that promote sprawl. April 13th, 2008 | Tags: congestion, Drew Carey, Gridlock, highways, LA, privatization, reason, sprawl, tolls, video | Category: sprawl, Transportation, video | Leave a comment |
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