At least five interesting things for your weekend (#45)
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At least five interesting things for your weekend (#45)
In the Information Age, it will be technologically feasible to impose tolls, including congestion fees, that accurately price access to highways, runways, and other infrastructure without interrupting traffic flow. Thus the provision transportation infrastructure could be discretely privatized and financed directly by those who use the service. Eco
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
The proper response to congestion between cities is to build capacity. The proper response to congestion within a city is to intensify land use.
Charles Marohn • A World Class Transportation System: Transportation Finance for a New Economy
A lot of the most important work that public institutions do is the most laborious, it's the most time consuming. It's the first thing that you would optimize away if you were trying to increase the profitability of your VC library, right?
Eli Pariser • How Urban Planning Could Help Build Better Online Spaces | On the Media | WNYC Studios
What would it mean to break out of the Infrastructure Cult and make capital investments that had a real return on investment? First and foremost, it would require us to spend public money on infrastructure projects that covered their own costs, not only today but indefinitely into the future.