TRANSPORTATION - Issue Backgrounders - Independence Institute

Light Rail Is Defeatable 0
- September 29, 2003
Rail transit ballot measures usually lose unless proponents outspend opponents by more then one hundred to one.
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It’s Not Too Late: To Avoid Congestion After T-REX 0
- August 15, 2003
By using the power of the market to help the T-REX project, congestion-free, free-flow traffic travel can be made available to both carpoolers and single occupant drivers. Further, $600 million can be pocketed by the state. By contrast, a decision to forego over a half billion dollars of desperately-needed transportation revenues will doom travelers to sit again in traffic congestion in the not-too-distant future.
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Don't Lock-in Nineteenth-Century Technology 0
- August 12, 2003
Rail transit is not and will never be a remedy for possible future oil shortages.
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"You Cannot Avoid Traffic"… and Other Myths 0
- July 10, 2003
“This idea will solve traffic congestion permanently.” No credible transportation official ever seems to say this anymore. Certainly, many will imply that the latest transitfad will somehow, magically reduce traffic and congestion, but they know that no investment will ever solve congestion.
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High Tax, Slow Tracks vs. Fast Roads, No Tax 0
- May 1, 2003
Bus-rapid transit and high-occupancy/toll lanes can produce far greater benefits than FasTracks at a far lower cost. This can be done with no new taxes by increasing the share of transit services that are contracted out.
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Myths & Facts about Rail Transit 0
- April 25, 2003
With rare Exceptions, rail transit is a costly and foolish investment that is more about pork barrel than it is about moving people.
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