Congestion 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 charging tolls to drivers [...]
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November 13th, 2008 | Tags: bridges, congestion pricing, history, nyc, privatization, tolls | Category: Transportation, privatization | Comments |
 printable viewNo doubt, mass production of the automobile is one of the greatest innovations of all times. It has allowed for increased mobility of goods and people, which has greatly improved productivity and leisure. But, is subsidizing mobility at the expense of taxpayers taking things too far? In various blogs and forums, I frequently come across the [...] July 30th, 2008 | Tags: automobile, construction, DeLucchi, fuel, gas, infrastructure, mobility, roads, socialism, tax, tolls | Category: Economics, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends, featured, infrastructure | 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 way out [...] June 10th, 2008 | Tags: CATO, congestion, highways, privatization, roads, Sam Staley, tolls, Transportation | Category: Transportation, privatization | Comments |
printable viewI favor Bob Poole’s solution: Furthermore, get the federal government out of the business of subsidizing highways altogether and allow the states to privatize them. It would shift the cost [...] April 16th, 2008 | Tags: Economics, highways, McCain, pigou, privatization, tolls | Category: Transportation | 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: Transportation, sprawl, video | Comments |
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