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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 3/28/2009

Building Good Roads

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One problem in our transportation policy is that funding is unduly weighted to spending money on roads rather than spending money on mass transit. Another problem in our transportation policy is that funding is unduly weighted to building new roads rather than to doing the necessary work to ...

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And Traffic
Eschaton — Just to add to this post, the additional thing is that by forcing all traffic onto the main road there's a potential for traffic problems. Even if an area doesn't get overdeveloped, when there's essentially only one through road, there's no release valve in the event of an accident or similar. ...

Manhattan Or Cul De Sac
Eschaton — Reading the comments over at Matt's place it's interesting that some people see those two pictures and think it's a comparison of a dense urban neighborhood like mine and a suburb. The pictures aren't really making any density comparison, they're simply comparing road layouts. And, roughly, it's a comparison between older streetcar suburbs and similar with newer (last 30 years or so) development. ...

The Ideology of Mass Transit
PoliGazette — ... Liberals love to promote mass transit as a replacement for personal automobile transportation.  They highlight the supposed environmental benefits and greater efficiency.  An example of such a vision is offered today by Matthew Yglesias. The problem, according to the always-right Yglesias, is that those dumb Americans keep insisting on driving their own cars and living in neighborhoods designed the way they want to live instead of how liberal social planning declares to be optimally efficient. ...