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by 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 a [...] February 6th, 2009 | Tags: automobile, density, planning, progressivism, roads, San Francisco, smart growth, Stephen Smith, transit, Transportation, zoning | Category: Transportation, planning, sprawl | Comments |
 printable viewThis morning, as I stepped to the stairway that brings me into Brooklyn’s 86th street subway station on the R line, I was greeted by two MTA employees who handed me MTA’s ‘Rider Report Card’ to fill out and mail in. As I started down the steps, I noticed something different than the usual [...] December 8th, 2008 | Tags: incentives, maintenance, MTA, nyc, subway, transit | Category: Transportation, corruption | Comments |
printable viewWhile I sympathize with the theme and agree with regards to roadway spending and “conservative” hypocrisy, a recent article in the progressive The American Prospect takes a narrow-minded view of politics and urbanism, while throwing around broad generalizations about evolution and global warming to support their assertions: The Conservative Case for Urbanism In fact, one doesn’t have [...] September 12th, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, density, development, infrastructure, Republican, sprawl, transit, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, Transportation, planning, privatization | Comments |
printable viewaffordability in the LA area affordability in New York City Play with the HUD-Brookings Institution’s new index maps here: The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index, developed by CNT and its collaborative partners, the Center for Transit Oriented Development (CTOD), is an innovative tool that measures the true affordability of housing. Planners, lenders, and most consumers traditionally [...] August 14th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, Chicago, CNT, development, housing, HUD-Brookings, nyc, Peter Gordon, transit | Category: Economics, housing | 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 twist, he takes [...] July 18th, 2008 | Tags: congestion, density, Free-market, reason, Sam Staley, transit | Category: Free-market impostors, planning, zoning | 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. Up until a [...] July 7th, 2008 | Tags: chile, econtalk, interview, munger, podcast, private transit, privatization, Russell Roberts, santiago, subway, transit | Category: Economics, Transportation, planning, privatization | Comments |
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Photo by flickr user mss2400 Faced with runaway costs, the CTA and City Hall slammed the emergency brakes Wednesday on ambitious plans to build a “super station” in downtown’s Block 37 to speed express trains to both Chicago’s airports. A combined $213 million has been spent on the project, yet there is not [...] June 12th, 2008 | Tags: block 37, Chicago, CTA, super station, transit, Transportation | Category: Transportation | Comments |
printable viewI subscribe to the CATO Institute’s Daily Dispatch email. I enjoy ready the daily briefings of current events from a free-market perspective. But, once in a while, my capitalist stomach turns when they mention transit, usually accompanied by a quote from Randal O’Toole. Usually he bashes some transit plan, and gives some statistics about the [...] June 6th, 2008 | Tags: CATO, Free-market, gas tax, highways, Randall O'Toole, transit | Category: Free-market impostors, Transportation | Comments |
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