This should come as no surprise to anyone who's taken a look at America's absurdly restrictive minimum parking requirements, but Streetsblog has come up with a really great example of really bad parking policy in action: The HUD-sponsored project, located on Bathgate Avenue between 183rd and 184th … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
Not Marshmallows, but a Really, REALLY Big Lollipop
In the last post, commenter AWP helped me realize that the marshmallow mountain analogy could be improved upon, since one person eating a marshmallow prevented another person from eating that same marshmallow. But the road cannot be subdivided as simply. Yes, a nit-picky implication of the … [Read more...]
Urban[ism] Legend: Transportation is a Public Good
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 … [Read more...]
Links
1. An excellent Wikipedia article about the old DC streetcars. I wish there were more economics, and I'd also like to know about the state-mandated consolidation that they talk about in the mid-1890s. Also note that streetcar use reached its peak in the mid 1910s – when people talk about interstate … [Read more...]
Links
1. China's high-speed rail scandal. So much for Obama's State of the Union shout-out. 2. Boston, Philadelphia, and DC are all moving towards parking reform – both of minimum off-street requirements (unfortunately to be replaced with maximums in most cases) and of underpriced curb parking – but … [Read more...]
Ed Glaeser on New York City, development as preservation, and more
Ed Glaeser has a sprawling feature story in The Atlantic about skyscrapers that's full of urbanist history and themes that I've been meaning to blog about for a few days now. It's a great article, with a lot of New York history in it, but I wanted to highlight a few bits. The part I liked most … [Read more...]
Jamaica, Queens upzoning was great, but don’t forget the parking minimums
In Next American City, Aaron Barker discusses the failure of NYC's massive rezoning in the highly transit-dependent black and immigrant neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens: One of the centerpieces of [NYC's] initiative to house an expected 1 million new arrivals in the coming decades was the Jamaica … [Read more...]
Obama administration pushing dissolution of Fannie and Fredie
Big news out of Washington: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – which many (including me) think were at the heart of the financial collapse, and currently have some stake in the vast majority of post-crash mortgages – may be getting wound down soon. This NYT is reporting that the Obama administration may … [Read more...]
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