Back and forth

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Tue, 07/14/2009 - 4:23am

It never surprises me to hear suburban commuters bash congestion tolls.  But I am surprised when a sophisticated transit blogger bashes them.

 Yonah Freemark, who writes the very good the transport politic , is the guilty party.

 He and Ryan Avent have been going back and forth and back again .

 

Yonah's objection is equity:

A huge percentage of the U.S. population pays far too much for transportation; to put it simply, most...


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