Catherine Salgado writes for PJMedia.com about the latest clash between the president and the mayor of his former home city. The late, great Margaret Thatcher once observed, “The trouble with…
Andrew Stuttaford writes for National Review Online about bad news for drivers in the United States and across the pond. There cannot be much doubt that the switch to electric…
As if Boston officials don’t have enough real challenges to deal with, it seems some are concerned that too many people are benefitting from ride sharing in Boston –– about…
It’s so crowded in Manhattan that taxis average less than 5 miles per hour. You can probably walk faster than that. Since the likelihood of New York City shedding appreciable…
Regular readers in this forum are likely to recognize the names Eli Lehrer and Reihan Salam. We learned this week that Salam will join Lehrer at the R Street Institute…
On-street parking fees are quadrupling, park of a $1.2b. push to: …increase mass-transit ridership and reduce the number of vehicles traveling to the central business district by charging higher meter…
This article in the N&O raises a question in my mind. Why doesn’t the Triangle have HOT lanes or a toll beltline or even HOV lanes? The article explains how…
It has been said that congestion is the result of traffic planners trying to socially-engineer people out of their cars. The JLF recommended means of relieving congestion. Asheville just developed…
One of News14’s little insta-polls has respondents willing to pay to avoid congestion by the margin of 59 to 34 percent. But if we spend all our money building trains,…
Check out The Washington Post editorializing in favor of HOT lanes to relieve congestion in the nation’s capital. What is going on here? DC has had a Metro system for…
Some ideas for solutions to traffic in the New York Times. Not all of them are as good as congestion pricing, and you always have to worry about “bold plans,”…
RALEIGH – Light rail isn’t the solution to traffic congestion in the Triangle. The good news is that there are several immediate, common-sense, and far less costly solutions available to…