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Survey: New Yorkers like Manhattan, the subway and more housing

September 2, 2020 By Michael Lewyn

The Manhattan Institute, a conservative (by New York standards) think tank, recently published a survey of New York residents; a few items are of interest to urbanists. A few items struck me as interesting.One question (p.8) asked "If you could live anywhere, would you live..." in your current … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: housing, New York City, nimbyism, public transit

Protectionism Is Already Harming American Workers And Cities

March 11, 2016 By Matthew Robare

Both Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and New York reality television personality Donald Trump have based their presidential campaigns in part on the issue of trade. Both of them oppose free trade policies like the North American Free Trade Agreement and the pending Tran Pacific Partnership, arguing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: infrastructure, Logistics & Transportation, Policy, Transportation Tagged With: Alon Levy, Bernie Sanders, Buy America, Donald Trump, NAFTA, public transit

Urban[ism] Legend: Transportation is a Public Good

February 22, 2011 By Adam Hengels

In a recent post, commenter Jeremy H. helped point out that the use of the term "public good" is grossly abused in the case of transportation.  Even Nobel economists refer to roads as "important examples of production of public goods," ( Samuelson and Nordhaus 1985: 48-49).  I'd like to spend a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Transportation, Urban[ism] Legends Tagged With: congestion, don boudreaux, Economics, highways, public good, public transit, roads

Private Buses: Econtalk Takes A Second look at Santiago

August 24, 2010 By Adam Hengels

Back a couple years ago, I noted an Econtalk podcast with Russell Roberts and Duke University Professor Mike Munger on the private bus system in Santiago, Chile.  This week's episode starts with Munger's update on the Santiago transportation system after visiting for three weeks and spending a lot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, privatization, Transportation Tagged With: buses, Economics, econtalk, munger, private transit, public transit, Russell Roberts, santiago, traffic, transit

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

Krugman: Stranded in Suburbia

May 19, 2008 By Adam Hengels

Paul Krugman wrote an op-ed this morning how the US living and transportation patterns will not cope with high oil prices as well as European cities: Changing the geography of American metropolitan areas will be hard. For one thing, houses last a lot longer than cars. Long after today’s S.U.V.’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: sprawl Tagged With: infrastructure, Oil, paul krugman, public transit, suburbia, suburbs, Transportation

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