OPINION: The Real ‘Cash Grab’ Isn’t Congestion Pricing — It’s Car Culture
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It pays to remember who profits as complainants line up on central business district tolling.
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THE BRAKE: Why Americans Don’t Drive Less When Gas Prices Soar
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It's our weekly podcast! Today's topic: Even with high gas prices, many Americans aren't driving any less because so many of their communities are so car-dependent. How do you fix that?
Op-Ed: Pro-Development Message Downplays Gentrification Threat
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Streetsblog has become the go-to place for a raging debate about housing policy!
New York is Really Awesome When the Rich People Leave and Take their Cars on Vacation
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Car owners are an entitled, selfish class of moochers — and it's time to stop catering to them by worrying about where they park their cars.
What the Equality of Opportunity Project Actually Says About Commuting
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With their powerful results, the studies coming out of the Equality of Opportunity Project, led by Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren, have become an important touchstone for journalists and transportation policy advisers. In their 2014 [PDF] and 2015 [PDF] studies, Chetty and Hendren show that place matters for low-income families. When low-income families have the […]
How Cutting Back on Driving Helps the Economy
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Cross-posted from City Observatory As Americans drive less and spend less on fuel, they have about $150 billion annually to spend in other ways. There are two kinds of economics: macroeconomics, which deals in big national and global quantities, like gross domestic product, and microeconomics, which focuses on a smaller scale, like how the prices […]