transportation
The Future of Transit is Not a Train, it’s a Market Opportunity
When the Front Range Passenger Rail Authority put a $295 million/year sales tax increase on the ballot (Issue 7A) to fund the Colorado Connector train (COCO), they posed the right question, but offered the wrong solution. Is there a multimillion…
LA Mayor Karen Bass revives the ‘free transit’ debate
In fact, prior to Bass taking office, Metro staff already contemplated the idea of what a universal…
Arguments in favor of soldiering on with Blue Line…
Photo: Tony Webster via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) (https://flic.kr/p/LvJVD1) In economics, a “sunk…
What Does a Streetcar System Cost?
Kansas City just spent over $100 million per mile for its Main Street streetcar extension, making it…
Bay Area transit tax would lock in flawed spending…
It’s a tax that would run for 14 years and raise an average of $1.2 billion a year. The four…
A not so Brightline: California’s other bullet train boondoggle
It’s happening. This time, it’s really happening. That’s what dignitaries at the pseudo-event told themselves on April 22, 2024 — the day Brightline West “officially broke ground on the nation’s first true high-speed rail system.” Bureaucrats,…
California Took Homes for the 710 Freeway Extension.…
Drive through parts of El Sereno, Alhambra, South Pasadena or Pasadena and you’ll notice something…
If EVs Sell Themselves, Why Are Taxpayers Paying for…
The rebates from the MyFirstEV program, which has no income cap (meaning it’s a subsidy for the…
American suburbs are better than most people think
Geoff Graham also responds to Smith, saying, “I am guessing no country subsidizes the infrastructure…
E-bikes are fun, but cities need to enforce reasonable…
On a fine October day in 2024 I was walking my Pomeranian show dog, Ollie, to my favorite Irvine…
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