All Posts Tagged With: "public transit"

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 | Continued

Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy

Edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close Reviewed by Michael Sanera

1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued

Are Highways Subsidized?

I have always loved trains. I am an ardent cyclist, and I never particularly liked automobiles. So I always took it for granted that the reason most Americans drive and passenger trains have nearly disappeared is that our highways are unfairly subsidized. I felt particularly incensed that the Interstate Highway System, which took business from [...]

1Nov2006 | Randal OToole | 8 comments | Continued

How Public Transit Undermines Safety

Everyone knows that automobile travel is dangerous. This naturally leads to the assumption that public transit ought to be encouraged as a means of improving travel safety. However, the issue is more complex than this simple assumption allows. In some respects, introducing more transit vehicles into the mix of urban transportation options will increase the [...]

1Apr2006 | John Semmens | 0 comments | Continued

Does Light Rail Worsen Congestion and Air Quality?

Growth in traffic has outpaced growth in population ever since the automobile went into mass production. This puts great demands on our transportation infrastructure. Trying to keep up with growing traffic by building more roadway capacity is a daunting task, particularly in urban regions. There are limits to how many lanes of roadway can be [...]

1Jun2005 | John Semmens | 3 comments | Continued

Beware "New Urbanism"

Most folks would never consider that the choice between intown and suburban living could hold any moral implications. The questions of cost, security, education options, house size, and yard size are far more important in buyers’ minds. But to those who fear the sprawl of cities into suburbs and beyond, the decision to live either [...]

1Oct2002 | C.C. Kraemer | 2 comments | Continued

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck

North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) • 2000 • 290 pages • $30.00 The authors of Suburban Nation are luminaries in the movement called “the New Urbanism.” Their goal is to stop what they view as the misshapen sprawl around cities, which they consider alienating, destructive of community, and wasteful of land. Suburban Nation [...]

1Jun2001 | Jane S. Shaw | 1 comment | Continued

Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies, and the Politics of Mobility

Over the last two generations a battle between the automobile and its enemies has raged in most urban regions. Aligned against the automobile is an elite composed of self-appointed visionaries who believe they have the answer to how urbanized man should live. On the other side we have the masses of common people and the [...]

1Nov1999 | John Semmens | 0 comments | Continued

Transit’s Transition from Socialism

Daniel Klein, Adrian Moore, and Binyam Reja are the authors of Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit, recently published by the Brookings Institution. In the United States, transit services have long been in decline. Despite federal, state, and local subsidies to municipally owned bus services, ridership has been dwindling and productivity [...]

1Oct1997 | , and , and Daniel B. Klein | 0 comments | Continued

Slugging It Out

C. Daniel Bradford is a major in the Army and works for the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Virginia. Several years ago I was transferred by the military from Georgia to the Washington, D.C., area. Because real estate is so expensive in the area immediately adjacent to the capital, most people live in the outlying [...]

1Oct1997 | C. Daniel Bradford | 0 comments | Continued

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