- Gas Tax Hikes to Fund Roads: Moving Forward in South Carolina (The State), Dead in New Mexico (KRWG)
- Reason Falls Into “Libertarian” Trap of Assuming That Funding Transit (But Not Highways?) Is Wasteful
- Debating Which Cities Are Worthy of Transit Funds Ignores America’s Auto-Dominated Reality (Frontier Group)
- Detroit Free Press Heralds This Week’s Streetcar Launch, Lays Out Vision for Transit
- Kansas City Streetcar, Smashing Ridership Projections, Celebrates First Birthday (Star 1, 2)
- Salon and The Verge Pick Apart the Transportation Hellscape Envisioned by Uber and Elon Musk
- Analyst of “Disruptive Technologies” Bets That High-Tech Bicycles Will Win Out Over Cars (CNN)
- Shoup: “Autonomous Cars Will Be Most Valuable Where Parking Is Expensive” (Market Urbanism)
- Bozeman Daily Chronicle Wants City to Slow Down Its Move to Ditch Parking Requirements
- Police in Ohio Town Use Facebook to Shame Drivers Behaving Badly (Dayton Daily News)
I think the correct term for a decree from an organization like the Manhattan Institute is “fatwa.”
Reason isn’t “trapped”. It has been a libertarian organ for at least 4 decades. Expecting them to advocate spending for ANYTHING that benfits citizens is “magical thinking”.
Jarrett Walker’s Human Transit blog ran a lovely set of pix showing 60 people in individual cars, on bikes, and in a bus. Using the bus wasted far less land than the cars. Open green space is much more pleasant than clogged highways.