As 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 [...]
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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 viewDaniel Nairn at Discovering Urbanism brings up a great point about cul-de-sacs. Are they public goods, or truly unnecessary “socialism in its most extreme form”? Take the standard cul-de-sac that serves a handful of households. The purpose of this design is to exclude the general public from passing through while serving the automotive [...] November 18th, 2008 | Tags: cul-de-sac, Daniel Nairn, DOT, driveway, network, socialism, Transportation, Urbanism, Virginia | Category: privatization, Transportation | 28 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 [...] September 12th, 2008 | Tags: conservatism, density, development, infrastructure, Republican, sprawl, transit, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Economics, Environment, planning, privatization, Transportation | 8 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 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 viewThis is a topic I want to cover more thoroughly, but for now I present a one hour documentary video on green buildings for you leisurely viewing. I came across the snagfilms website from a recent Wall Street Journal article. Most of the documentary videos lean towards “progressive” tastes, but hopefully they’ll [...] July 20th, 2008 | Tags: density, documentary, Environment, Friedman, government, Transportation, Urbanism | Category: Environment, Urban[ism] Legends, video | 12 comments |
printable viewRegular reader, Bill forwarded this article from the New York Daily News calling it an “outstanding collection of anti-density and anti-market propaganda presented (as always) as objective journalism.” The article is riddled with misconceptions (aka Urbanism Legends) about zoning and development and is a perfect example of the quality of journalism that touches [...] June 30th, 2008 | Tags: density, development, nyc, parking, planners, Transportation, Urbanism, zoning | Category: planning, zoning | 8 comments |
printable viewPhoto by flickr user mss2400 Thanks, DBM for the tip: 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 [...] June 12th, 2008 | Tags: block 37, Chicago, CTA, super station, transit, Transportation | Category: Transportation | Leave a comment |
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