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Matt Yglesias fails to make the right case against highways

November 12, 2008 By Stephen Smith

Matt Yglesias is one of the best mainstream bloggers on land use/transportation that I know of. As one blogger (who I don't recall right now) once said, his urban planning and transportation posts could be blogs in their own right. However, it's puzzling that in an article for Cato Unbound, he … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free-market impostors, Transportation, Zoning Tagged With: free market urbanism, private transit, public transit, Randal O'Toole, Stephen Smith

Free Market Impostors

June 6, 2008 By Adam Hengels

I 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free-market impostors, Transportation Tagged With: CATO, Free-market, gas tax, highways, Randal O'Toole, transit

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