Housing Affordability Smart Growth Abuses Are Creating a Rent Belt of High Cost Areas heritage.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heritage.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Some highway advocates continue to claim that roadway expansions are justified to reduce traffic congestion. That's not what the research shows. It's time to stop obsessing over congestion and instead strive for efficient accessibility.
Those who trust the free market more than the government to address the nation’s energy challenges have sometimes cringed during President Bush’s past State of the Union addresses. Unfortunately, the 2007 address (and the supporting materials released beforehand) added to this tradition, though there were a few bright spots as well. Overall, the energy plan described in this year's State of the Union would lead to higher, not lower, energy prices for the American people. The Good
Overall, transit has little chance of reducing congestion in urbanareas. Spending large sums of money to get a few drivers out oftheir cars risks losing sight of transit's main mission: providingmobility for people who cannot drive. Genuine transit advocateswould focus on that mission, while those concerned about congestionshould find new tools, such as congestion tolls, that would reducecongestion and fund needed improvements in the highway system.
A Critical Evaluation of the Urban Mobility Report planetizen.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from planetizen.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.