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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Let's subsidize bad choices - and then tax them!

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Matt Yglesias talks about the best way to discourage people from eating junk food. Tyler Cowan says that taxing junk food is more effectiv...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

More bad transit funding framing, this time from Russianoff

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At the end of a New York Times article Thursday, Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign was asked whether he thinks MTA chair Jay Wa...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

The only green road is a dead road

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Planetizen linked to an Environmental Leader story about a new proposal for rating the "greenness" of roads, with a PDF of the p...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

If you care about the G train...

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Back in September, I observed that transit lines are often in competition with parallel highways. The main reason that governments have to...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

MTA Bus outdoes NYC Transit

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Yesterday I discussed the cost data for New York City Transit buses that Larry Littlefield so helpfully pointed us to. I wasn't able t...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Habits of highly efficient bus routes

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For many years, the MTA released only the bare minimum amount of information necessary to satisfy its legal requirements. Under Jay Walder,...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

What I want from transit advocates

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Back in January 2009 I was feeling frustrated at the lack of action from transit advocacy groups, but then they came forward with an (ultima...
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