Mad Props
Over the weekend, LTR got some big ups from Transport Blog. A sample:
"AMG and RJ3 clearly know their stuff and LTR looks like becoming essential reading. "
Sch-weet. However, TB's Patrick Crozier added a small caveat to his praise: He worries we may not be sufficiently pro-market.
I wouldn't consider myself anti-market or pro-private sector. I know that two private companies built the bulk of the New York City subway I grew up with. However, moving people from Point A to Point B in America is no longer a question of market versus state. Developers choose to build subdivisions in far-off areas because they know government will build roads to connect new residents to shopping areas and workplaces. They don't have to pay for these roads, which occasionally cost more than the new housing itself. If developers had to figure out themselves how to get residents where they wanted to go, you might see more "in-fill" developments and perhaps even more privately-owned mass transit.
As it stands now, it's not the market opposing transit, it's corporate welfare versus transit.
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rj3 | 01:46 PM |
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