TRANSPORTATION - Miscellaneous - Independence Institute

FTA Cost-Effectiveness Rule 0
- March 6, 2012
As if projects such as the Honolulu rail line aren’t a big enough waste of money, Secretary of Immobility Ray LaHood is seeking to change the Federal Transit Administration’s process for evaluating grant proposals for rail projects. As if to illustrate the slow and cumbersome nature of federal programs, LaHood originally proposed to revise these […]
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Designed to Fail 0
- March 5, 2012
Are American cities competing to see which can come up with the most ridiculous transit proposals? If so, Honolulu will probably win, hands down. The nation’s 52nd-largest urban area has only about 950,000 people, yet it is spending $5.3 billion, or more than $5,500 per resident, to build a single 20-mile rail line. That’s probably […]
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So Much for the Koch Brothers Controlling the Antiplanner 0
- March 2, 2012
Apparently, the Kochs and Cato have been feuding since 1991. I have no idea what this is all about, but at least no one can say that I am in the pay of the Koch family and somehow doing their bidding.
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Back in the Air Again 0
- February 28, 2012
The Antiplanner is in Honolulu this week talking with people about the city’s planned $5.7-billion rail line. Rail advocates want to believe the rail plan is set in stone, but not everyone agrees. The project still has many obstacles to overcome. If the transportation bill that Congress eventually passes recognizes fiscal realities, for example, the […]
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Letting the Infrastructure Crumble 0
- February 27, 2012
Portland can spend hundreds of millions on streetcars and billions on light rail. But it is letting its most-valuable asset–the city’s $5 billion road system–fall apart, says an expose featured in yesterday’s Oregonian. The city’s transportation department, says the article, has enough money to hire eight new employees to oversee streetcars, build more than a […]
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Back in the Air Again 0
- February 23, 2012
The Antiplanner is headed to Vancouver BC this morning for a debate on whether smart growth and light rail should be applied in Vancouver suburbs south of the Fraser River. The other side of the question will be represented by Todd Litman. The debate will take place at 7:00 pm tonight at the Langley Municipal […]
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