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- Surface Transportation Innovations # 50
Topics include: an economist's look at urban transportation policy; Miami toll truckway proposed to ease port traffic congestion; low-cost bus lines; 10th anniversary of Toronto's 407ETR; what if there were "green" cars?; last "6320" toll road going priva
Robert Poole
December 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 49
Topics include: broader support for PPPs; universal farecards for transit; market pricing of parking; toll truckways and LCVs; reducing congestion in Seattle; follow-up on eliminating toll booths; and other news.
Robert Poole
November 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 48
Topics include: getting rid of toll booths; transit system report shows progress, limits; stopping sprawl to "save the planet;" federal grant for a toll bridge?; cost-effective four-laning; new congestion measures in Atlanta; and other news.
Robert Poole
October 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 47
Topics include: FTA embraces HOT/BRT lanes; Indiana Toll Road one year later; thinking through long-term PPPs; cars vs. transit for the job-seeking poor; greenhouse policy run amok; and other news.
Robert Poole
September 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 46
Topics include: impact of Minnesota bridge collapse; underestimating the role for tolls and PPPs; National Infrastructure Bank: a bad idea; time for California to switch to HOT lanes; cars vs. transit: packets vs. circuits; and other news.
Robert Poole
August 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations #45
Topics include: freight rail as congestion-reliever?; more information on bus vs. rail transit; congestion and economic health; new Reason policy papers; and other news.
Robert Poole
July 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 44
Topics include: Bus Rapid Transit on inexpensive guideways; fragmentation of our highway system?; continuing battles over ports access; pension funds and transportation investment; ethanol and ozone; incentives work to repair California bridge; and other
Robert Poole
June 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 43
Topics include: the basics of toll road concession deals; financing new roads vs. pay-as-you-go; guaranteed congestion relief?; rethinking Oregon transportation policy; rethinking CAF�
Robert Poole
May 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 42
Topics include: facts vs. fictions on toll road concessions; carpool lane follies in California; port emissions and congestion; fresh perspective on urban sprawl; CO2 and cars; and other news.
Robert Poole
April 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 41
Topics include: studies conclude HOT lanes best bet; rail versus truck: Amtrak as obstacle; what if a toll road concessionaire goes belly-up?; toll roads and land values; transportation innumeracy and its consequences; and other news.
March 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 40
Topics include: a new solution for HOV occupancy enforcement; edgeless cities; arterial underpasses; intermittent bus lanes in Lisbon; more on the trucks-tolls debate; and other news.
Robert Poole
February 1, 2007 - Surface Transportation Innovations # 39
Topics include: new evidence questioning "induced demand;" concessions advancing, along with the backlash; Bus Rapid Transit in Latin America; learning about Europe's tunnels; resisting transportation earmarks; and other news.
Robert Poole
January 1, 2007 - Preserving the Highway Trust Fund and Paying for Transit Projects (2/9)
- Housing Bubble Over? Hardly (2/9)
- In Nebraska Child Welfare Reform Should Focus on Removing Fewer Children not Starting New State Agencies (2/9)
- House Passes Legislation Putting the GSEs on Budget (2/8)
- Bernanke is Depriving Most Americans from Creating Real Wealth (2/8)
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In Darkness and Safe House
No direction home
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ObamaCare's Medicaid Mandate
Is the health care law's Medicaid expansion unconstitutional?
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Warren Buffett: Baptist and Bootlegger
How America?s favorite billionaire plays politics to make money
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Government Can?t Make Us Happy
Even the staunchest proponents of government intervention to increase happiness admit that there?s no relationship.
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Appease This!
Foreign policy under Obama is not much different from what we would have expected had Bush stayed for a third term.
(2/9)
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Romney Most Electable Candidate, Yet Gingrich in Statistical Tie Among GOP Voters
(1/31)
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Explaining Newt?s Second Surge
Why is the disgraced former House speaker winning Republican votes?
(1/26)
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George Washington Would Beat Out Romney as Richest President; John Kerry Would Have, Too
(1/25)
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