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The Bellows

Url:	http://www.ryanavent.com/blog/
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Language:	English
Tags:	economics, transportation, urbanism
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Grow, Philly, Grow

Back when Ed Glaeser was writing his unfortunate series on the costs and benefits of a high-speed rail network, he said:Philadelphia is the more natural beneficiary of high-speed rail access to Man...more

2009-12-02

Words to Remember

Pay attention:Using Federal Highway Administration statistics, Subsidyscope has calculated that in 2007, 51 percent of the nation’s $193 billion set aside for highway construction and mainten...more

2009-11-24

What’s Going On With Me

No doubt you are all wondering what’s up in my life. The answer, as it happens, is kind of a lot. Some details!First, I will soon be taking on a new role at The Economist, as Online Economics...more

2009-11-20

Creative Funding

From Bloomberg:Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said his goal to speed up construction of 12 transit projects and ease congestion in the second-biggest U.S. city requires “creative” funding h...more

2009-11-19

Crime in DC

I think this post by Ezra gets things wrong in a lot of different ways:On Saturday night, much of Columbia Road was blocked off by sirens and tape. It says something about Washington that this didn...more

2009-11-17

Boo

Has S&P really taken historical Case-Shiller data offline? Really? Someone tell me I’m wrong. Information wants to be free, jerks.

2009-11-12

On Car Sharing

I’m sure that in a very transit-oriented city like New York, car-sharing does generate some mode shifting from walking or biking or taking the train to driving, though I would guess that even...more

2009-11-11

Funding Transportation

Elana Schor reports on efforts to fund the next transportation bill and notes that the latest craze is a move to tax oil futures and (perhaps) all stock transactions. This strategy is gaining groun...more

2009-11-10

Happy Days

Paul Krugman writes:For various reasons I’ve been doing a lot of walking around the past few days, in both Princeton and New York, visiting areas I haven’t looked at for several months. And I’m not...more

2009-11-10

Papers of the Day

Two by the same authors, Jason Junge and David Levinson. First up, “Economic and equity effects of transportation utility fees.”Transportation utility fees are a ﬁnancing mechanism for ...more

2009-11-05

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