One charge often leveled at planners is that they deliberately foster congestion in order to force people to live in dense, walkable developments.
I'm generally critical of planning, and I certainly don't believe one group should foist its preferences on another.
The fact, though, is that some congestion is good. Not because compact, centrally located development is more virtuous than single-family homes in the suburbs.
Rather, drivers are willing to pay only so much to avoid congestion -- which...
No
I agree with Ryan Avent that this WSJ piece makes a bizarre argument against congestion pricing: By requiring car drivers to pay a fee to drive in a city at peak hours, congestion pricing...
$160 per trip
That's the social cost that Charles Kamonoff, an NYC environmental/transportation analysist, believes each driver who enters Manhattan's central business district imposes on other...
$160 per trip
That's the social cost that Charles Kamonoff, an NYC environmental/transportation analysist, believes each driver who enters Manhattan's central business district imposes on other drivers....
SH 130 vs I-35: early returns
Ben Wear and a colleague have run another experiment comparing SH 130 to I-35. The trip around Austin on SH 130 was 22 minutes faster than the trip straight through town on I-35. This...
SH 130 vs I-35: early returns
Ben Wear and a colleague have run another experiment comparing SH 130 to I-35. The trip around Austin on SH 130 was 22 minutes faster than the trip straight through town on I-35. This...
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