Independence Institute

High-Speed Rail Hearings 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- February 1, 2011
You know that Congress is serious about getting the facts about high-speed rail when it holds a hearing on high-speed rail in Grand Central Station. Rail advocates proposed to extend the Northeast Corridor rail system to Springfield. Videotaping is often discouraged at Congressional hearings, but fortunately the Antiplanner was able to obtain the video of […]
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Is It Real or Is It Portlandia?0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- January 31, 2011
If you buy more than $50 worth of stuff, Office Depot will deliver for free. But they might deliver it in a carbon-spewing truck, so the city of Portland has given a $6 million, five-year contract to a delivery company that promises to deliver office supplies by electric-powered tricycles. B-Line’s slogan is “sustainable urban delivery”–but […]
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Yield to Transit’s Moral Superiority 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- January 28, 2011
Everyone knows that transit is morally superior to automobiles, so it is no surprise to see state legislatures passing laws requiring auto drivers to yield to buses when they are pulling into traffic from bus stops. The stated reason for the law–that “the inability of buses to get quickly back into the traffic flow after […]
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Regulating to Prevent the Last Crisis 0
- TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous
- January 27, 2011
In addition to mentioning high-speed rail a couple of times, President Obama’s state of the union speech mentioned the need to regulate the finance industry to prevent the kind of global crisis that took place in 2008. This received one of the loudest applauses of the evening as it has become conventional wisdom that the […]
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