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Cato Needs To Re-Toole Their Bad Takes On Infrastructure

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments manufacturing, milkshakes, moore's law, multimodal, northeast corridor, northeast corridor tunnel, public transit, randal o'toole, intermodal transit, randall o'toole, real clear policy, small government, train, trains, transit, libertarian, libertarianism, intermodal, batman, capital expenditures, batman meme, bad ideas, Amtrak NEC, amtrak capex, amtrak, alstom, cato institute, farebox recovery ratio, government bad, inflation, high-speed rail, government spending, gridlock, FRR, freight, federal spending

The Cato Institute’s Randal O’Toole has a really terrible take on transportation investment that grossly misrepresents how money and economic efficiency work.

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A Biden Presidency: Full Speed Ahead On Transit?

November 9, 2020November 8, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments rail infrastructure, mass transit, midwest high-speed rail, public transit, rail, trains, transit, transit infrastructure, amtrak, infrastructure funding, infrastructure, high-speed rail

Republicans have tried time and again to defund Amtrak, which receives about a tenth of one percent of the funding directed to car infrastructure every year. Will a new Democratic administration be able to (finally) push for modernizing our transit infrastructure?

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Sorry, Tim– Pocket Change Can’t Fix Suburbia.

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments Zoning, affordable housing, mountain view, palo alto, regional planning, san jose, sunnyvale, transit, YIMBY, california, big tech, bay area, BART, Density, apple, high-speed rail, google

Apple just announced that it’s committing a bunch of money to housing development in the Bay Area. That’s good, right?!

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