Americans are in love with their automobiles and justifiably so. For Americans, the advent of the automobile is directly related to the improvement in the quality of life including increased personal income, increased home ownership, and increased personal mobility. While critics would like to Americans to abandon their vehicles in favor of government-sponsored mass transit, this is no time to break up a long, healthy relationship.
READ MORERTD is preparing to spend billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money building rail transit. The problem it faces now is how to get people onto trains when most people live miles from rail lines. Its solution: Jam people into high-density housing around each rail transit station. RTD calls this “transit oriented development,” or TOD.
READ MORESmart-growth planning and other land-use restrictions create artificial housing shortages that dramatically reduce housing affordability. Penalties from planning cost Colorado homebuyers $4 billion in 2005, which is far more than any possible benefits from such planning. Local officials should remover barriers to housing construction and find better ways to attain the benefits smart growth is supposed to produce.
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Smart growth and other forms of growth-management planning create artificial housing shortages that impose significant burdens on low-income families and first-time homebuyers. This paper examines several sources of housing data to determine the specific effects of growth-management planning on housing prices.
READ MOREn his 2002 book “Shakedown,” Ken Timmerman exposed the fundraising style of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. It’s pure mob. Jesse’s goons quite literally go to a corporation tell them to donate or face charges of racism by Jesse’s operatives. The corporation makes a purely business decision. It’s less expensive to just pay him off.
READ MOREThe new Rosa Parks? Probably not. But Deborah Davis could become an icon for privacy.
Davis is the woman who refused to show her ID to security officers at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood and may be prosecuted for her crime. The center is technically federal property and home to about 7,000 employees and up to 2,000 visitors a day.
READ MOREThe recent Los Angeles commuter train disaster that killed eleven people has brought national attention to the safety problems inherent in most rail transit lines. Yet the Los Angeles tragedy is only one of many recent rail accidents.
READ MOREA recent article in the New York Times describes a transportation planner in the Netherlands who advocates making streets city safer by making them more dangerous.
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