In a recent post, commenter Jeremy H. helped point out that the use of the term “public good” is grossly abused in the case of transportation. Even Nobel economists refer to roads as ”important examples of production of public goods,” ( Samuelson and Nordhaus 1985: 48-49). I’d like to spend a little more time dispensing of [...]
|
||||||
|
February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: congestion, don boudreaux, Economics, highways, public good, public transit, roads | Category: Economics, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends | 51 comments |  printable viewA few days ago I wrote about inner Seattle’s residential density liberalization, and I mentioned that I’d emailed a few land use writers at libertarian think tanks to get their reaction. I’m happy to report that all of them responded, and throughout the week I’ll post links to/reprint their responses, along with any comments [...] December 6th, 2010 | Tags: density, roads, seattle, urban growth boundaries | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments | printable viewThis is probably my favorite link list yet…enjoy! 1. The WSJ claims that delinquent homeowners can expect to stay in their homes after making their last mortgage payment – that is, they can live rent-free – for at least 16 months. The longer it takes for foreclosures to happen, the longer it will take [...] November 28th, 2010 | Tags: China, dc, Environment, food, Hong Kong, Houston, mortgage, New Jersey, roads, Singapore, Southeast Asia | Category: Uncategorized | 7 comments | printable viewMathieu Helie at Emergent Urbanism posted a link to a interesting game created at the University of Minnesota. Mathieu explains it better than I can: The game begins in the Stalinian Central Bureau of Traffic Control, where a wrinkly old man pulls you out of your job at the mail room to come save [...] August 14th, 2009 | Tags: cambodia, congestion, Gridlock, planning, roads, safety, signals, streets, traffic, Transportation | Category: planning, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, video | 12 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith I was heartened to see an article about the need for mass transit in the pages of The Nation, though I was severely disappointed by the magazine’s own hypocrisy and historical blindness. The article is in all ways a standard left-liberal screed against the car and for mass transit, which is [...] February 6th, 2009 | Tags: automobile, density, planning, progressivism, roads, San Francisco, smart growth, Stephen Smith, transit, Transportation, zoning | Category: history, planning, sprawl, Transportation | 11 comments | printable viewby Stephen Smith Yesterday I was listening to the pre-inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial on the radio, and one of the speakers said something that struck me as emblematic of the challenges that Barack Obama faces, though I doubt she realized the ironic significance. She was praising Theodore Roosevelt’s conservationist legacy as a [...] January 20th, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, conservation, highways, roads, Stephen Smith, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Transportation | Leave a comment | printable viewAs Washington debates how many hundreds-of-billions of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus will go towards infrastructure or to other spending/tax cut schemes, pundits claim that spending billions on “shovel ready” public works projects can effectively create jobs that will lead to recovery. As readers probably know, I am skeptical that the anticipated spending could be [...] January 12th, 2009 | Tags: boondoggles, budgets, construction, government, highways, infrastructure, paul krugman, roads, stimulus, Transportation, tyler cowen | Category: corruption, Economics, Free-market impostors, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends | 2 comments | printable viewBart Frazier wrote a brief article for the Future of Freedom Foundation on private roads. He begins by discussing how most Americans remain strongly opposed to privately owned roads, while at the same time many have warmed to private education, medicine, and social security. This first part of the article is somewhat similar to [...] January 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Bart Frazier, Dulles Greenway, highways, libertarian, Private Roads, roads | Category: privatization, Transportation | 18 comments | printable view |
||||||
|
Copyright © 2013 Market Urbanism - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
||||||
