Today’s Headlines

As Construction Costs Rise, Bicycling Infrastructure Becomes Even More Cost Effective (LAB)
DOT Marks $745 Million for Northeast Rail Corridor Targeted by GOP (TheHill)
Red Light Cameras in NYC Receive Support From City Council and Mayor Bloomberg (TranspoNation)
When Conservatives Fight the Free Market: Congestion Pricing, the Swedish Example (ThinkProgress)
Rhode Island Pushes to Convert Interstate 95 to Toll Road (WTNH)
Trains Are Nicer Than Buses and Other Reasons Amtrak Isn’t Cheaper in the Northeast (GGW)
Understanding Rick Perry’s Urban Policy Through His Legacy of Big Texas Cities (Forbes)
Simple Urban Design: Make Cities So Kids Can Safely Buy Popsicles (NRDC)
The Future of the World’s Cities With Two Billion Cars (WaPo)

ALSO ON STREETSBLOG

What If We Paid the Full Cost of Driving?

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 4, 2014

Driving is too cheap in the United States. It’s a complicated thing to unpack, but David Levinson, engineering professor at the University of Minnesota and blogger at the Transportationist, attempted to analyze the cost per-minute. Levinson estimates that the true cost of driving — including vehicle purchase price, insurance, taxes, repairs, and costs like parking and […]

Report: Bush-Era Transit ‘Cost-Effectiveness’ Rule to Cost Charlotte $67M

By Elana Schor | Apr 5, 2010

When the Obama administration moved in January to undo a 2005 rule that made a federal "cost-effectiveness" rating the most important factor in determining which transit projects received funding, critics and even some transit advocates were skeptical, questioning whether the U.S. DOT would be able to legitimately quantify the community-building benefits of rail and bus […]

The sticker always hides the true cost of car ownership ... on the owner and society.

STUDY: What A Lifetime of Car Ownership Costs — And Who Pays

By Kea Wilson | Feb 9, 2022

The average motorist will pay a whopping $650,000 on the low end to own a car over his or her lifetime, and society will pick up over 40 percent of the tab, a new study finds.

Car Ownership Cost Calculator

By Aaron Naparstek | Jun 29, 2006

The Volvo has stolen $214,177.23 from our son’s college education. Calculate how many grande latte’s you could be buying with the money you spent on that last muffler job: "The Real Costs of Car Ownership."

Think Tank Responds to Report on Hidden Costs of Fossil Fuels: Yawn

By Elana Schor | Oct 20, 2009

The National Academy of Science’s new report on the hidden health costs of U.S. reliance on fossil fuels has generated high-profile media coverage around the country, most of it focusing on the $62 billion annual estimate for coal rather than the $56 billion projection for vehicles. (Photo: SILive.com) But Greenwire’s write-up is particularly interesting, if […]

The True Cost of Moving to Cheaper Suburban Housing

By Sarah Goodyear | Mar 10, 2009

Today Streetsblog Network member The City Fix reports on the "cost of place" in the Washington, DC, area — the way that the price of housing and transportation stacks up for people in the urban core and the suburbs. According to a report recently released by the Urban Land Institute, Photo by ehpien via Flickr. […]