A Libertarian View of Urban Sprawl

March 18th, 2010
By Randal O'Toole On Thursday, March 18, John Stossel’s show on the Fox Business News network will feature a discussion of how taxes and regulation have prevented urban areas like Cleveland from recovering from the decline of the industries that once supported those regions. While the “stars” of the show were Drew Carey and Reason Magazine’s Nick Gillespie, Stossel spent a few minutes on zoning and land-use regulation. When searching for someone to advocate such land-use regulation, they happened to ask James Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere, a critique of suburbia. ...

The Kelo Conceit

November 13th, 2009
It is hard not to gloat over the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s infamous Kelo decision. As the Wall Street Journal pointed out recently, the city of New London, Connecticut spent $78 million condemning people’s homes and bulldozing them away, and the development that was supposed to happen in that area has flopped and looks [...]

On King 5 News!

June 25th, 2009
KING 5 - News Story on June 24th http://www.king5.com/localnews/south/stories/NW_062409WAB-tacoma-light-rail-KS.32c7e0a.html The Sound Transit spokesperson says "they haven't made a final decision yet." "There's still plenty of time for people to check out the project," Other News: Tacoma News Tribune / Word On The Street http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/street/?blog=57&title=new_blog_makes_the_case_against_sounder_&page=1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&disp=single

The best rail transit system possible, today, for communities on the Eastside

May 24th, 2009

Street-level light rail in Bellevue is front-runner in study - Seattle Times

May 14th, 2009
Street-level light rail in Bellevue is front-runner in study Seattle Times, United States A street-level light-rail route across downtown Bellevue will be the front-runner in Sound Transit's environmental studies for the $2.7 billion East Link project, the agency's governing board decided today. By Mike Lindblom A street-level light-rail ...

Surface route chosen for Eastside light rail - Seattle Post Intelligencer

May 14th, 2009
Surface route chosen for Eastside light rail Seattle Post Intelligencer The board's unanimous choice of a preferred route for Sound Transit's East Link project allows engineering work to move ahead on that route, while not shutting the door on other options. The board left the door extra open for a possible tunnel through ...

Forcing you to work and live where the government wants

April 28th, 2009
Here is an excellent study from Dr. Ron Utt, a senior fellow at Heritage Foundation, called President Obama's New Plan to Decide Where Americans Live and How They Travel. You might remember that Dr. Utt was our featured speaker at last years transportation event, where he spoke about performance-based transportation policy and traffic congestion relief. President Barack Obama's early comments on his opposition to suburban sprawl and his intention to alter the way Americans live and ...

The incredible shrinking city!

April 26th, 2009
Here in Pugetopolis it's still a matter of faith that growth is unstoppable and the urbanization is the answer to all our prayers. I've written that growth is often the result of national policies (land grants, homesteading, land reclamation, tax incentives, bank deregulation) and as such, it can be steered and controlled. We could, for example, create policies that could help repopulate fading rural areas, such as the proposed New Homestead Act. But U.S. rural areas aren't the only places losing population. Many of the world's cities are also shrinking. That trend is most visible in Europe (new ...

4 Members of Bellevue City Council Vote to Doom Home on the National Registry (The Winters House) for Sound Transit’s East Link

February 26th, 2009

City of Bellevue to Hear Citizens re: Sound Transit’s Light Rail Corridor Alignments & Accompanying Impacts

February 2nd, 2009
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