All Posts Tagged With: "congestion pricing"
Congestion Pricing: The Road to the Surveillance State
To combat the rush-hour traffic threatening Western civilization, American mayors are flocking to “congestion pricing.” They’re not alone: rulers worldwide love this scheme because it combines yet another automotive tax with surveillance cameras at every intersection. The theory fueling congestion pricing is the one spanning our automotive lives: driving is a “privilege” government dispenses. Driving [...]
1Jan2008 | Becky Akers | 0 comments | ContinuedAlternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation by Clifford Winston and Chad Shirley
Brookings Institution • 1998 • 120 pages • $36.95 cloth; $15.95 paperback Urban transportation in America suffers from gross inefficiencies. The source of these inefficiencies is political intervention that pushes transportation policy away from cost-effective solutions and toward the distribution of benefits to favored groups—predominately transit managers and suppliers of transit inputs (that is, labor [...]
1Mar2000 | John Semmens | 1 comment | Continued-
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