Often touted as the low-cost alternative to light rail, bus-rapid transit (BRT) is usually just another way to waste money. Case in point: Eugene, Oregon plans to open its first bus-rapid transit line next week. Transit officials sold the line to the public using the following artists’ conception:
Jack Bogdanski was kind enough to link to this site, and one of his readers commented:
The Antiplanner doesn’t appear to be against just land-use planning… but rather ALL kinds of government planning. I’m baffled. Should government just proceed willy-nilly on whatever each bureaucrat’s personal whim is that day?”
In my opening post, I defined “government planning” as planning that is comprehensive, long-range, and/or deals with other people’s land and resources. This is the sort of planning that does not work.
I have no problem with government agencies that have narrowly defined missions doing the planning they need to do to carry out those missions. To distinguish this from “government planning” as defined above, I would call this mission-oriented planning organizing.
