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Showing posts with label consensus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consensus. Show all posts
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Cities don't think

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I listen to a few podcasts that cover issues of land use and transportation, and they tend to be heavy with urban planners. I also follow ...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Listening - skeptically - to NIMBYs

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So Kaid Benfield's post " Mitigating the environmental paradox of smart growth: softening urban density " got the snazzier tit...
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Saturday, October 6, 2012

How to stop them taking our money

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Okay, so what do you think all these things have in common? Bridge tolls Parking meters Traffic tickets Gas taxes Wealth tax...
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Monday, January 2, 2012

The NYSAC is not your friend

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You may remember the New York State Association of Counties. Last February their transportation committee passed a resolution opposing comp...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Hitting the ceiling

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No, I'm not talking about the debt ceiling, I'm not talking about getting angry, and I'm not talking about a real ceiling. I...
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

The cost of sucky outreach

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And the parson made it his text that week, and he said likewise That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie ...
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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Funding common-pool resources

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If you have a project that provides a public good that benefits everyone, it makes sense to pay for it by having the government tax everyon...
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Friday, August 6, 2010

Good for all and good for some

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In my last post I said that large projects could be divided into things that benefit everyone and things that benefit only some people. Th...
Monday, August 2, 2010

Bigger than one person

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Long before humans walked the earth, when our ancestors were some other kind of primate, we figured out that there are some things that one ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Transit financing kludges

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It's really amazing what you can do for transit when you have consensus . Today, Yonah compares the difficulty that the Obama administ...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Acting without consensus

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As I wrote a few weeks ago, the best way for a community to accomplish anything is through consensus. History is full of "leaders...
Monday, July 19, 2010

Consensus, trust and bad faith

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Here's the most interesting quote from Alex Blumberg's piece on consensus and the economy in Jamaica and Barbados: Alex: For Tony W...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

Consensus through democracy

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Last week I talked about consensus, with some good comments by Bruce and Alon. Consensus is how getting people out of their cars translate...
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Friday, July 9, 2010

The power of consensus

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My recent post about sunsets has attracted a number of comments, mostly relating to my argument that park-and-rides are not the answer . W...
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