The Cato Institute is a non-profit public policy research foundation that promotes the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. The Institute is named for Cato’s Letters, a series of libertarian pamphlets that helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution.
In 2008, the Cato Institute published the ultimate Antiplanning book, The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future. In 2010, it published the ultimate anti-transportation planning book, Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It. In 2012, it published the ultimate anti-urban planning book, American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership.
Most recently, in 2018 Cato published Romance of the Rails, which addresses urban rail transit and intercity rail from the point of view of someone who loves passenger trains but doesn’t believe other people should be forced to subsidize their hobbies. The book includes a detailed history of passenger service going back to 1825 and is supported by 60 photographs.
The Cato Institute has also published many commentaries and other articles by the Antiplanner. The more than three dozen Cato reports written by the Antiplanner include (from most recent to oldest):
- The High-Speed Rail Money Sink: Why the United States Should Not Spend Trillions on Obsolete Technology
- Zero-Based Transportation Policy: Recommendations for 2021 Transportation Reauthorization
- Transit: The Urban Parasite
- Principles for the 2020 Surface Transportation Reauthorization
- Charting Public Transit’s Decline
- The Coming Transit Apocalypse
- The New Feudalism: Why States Must Repeal Growth-Management Laws
- Rails & Reauthorization: The Inequity of Federal Transit Funding (co-authored with Michelangelo Landgrave)
- Policy Implications of Autonomous Vehicles
- Review of Greenlight Pinellas (St. Petersburg, FL light-rail proposal)
- Rapid Bus: A Low-Cost, High-Capacity Bus System for Major Urban Areas
- The Worst of Both: The Rise of High-Cost, Low-Capacity Rail Transit
- Review of Project Connect (Austin light-rail proposal)
- Review of the Panama City Metro Project
- Reducing Livability: How Sustainability Planning Threatens the American Dream
- Paint Is Cheaper than Rails: Why Congress Should Abolish New Starts
- Improving Incentives for Federal Land Managers: The Case for Recreation Fees
- Stopping the Runaway Train: The Case for Privatizing Amtrak
- The Great Streetcar Conspiracy
- Ending Congestion by Refinancing Highways
- Intercity Buses: The Forgotten Mode
- Crony Capitalism and Social Engineering: The Case Against Tax-Increment Financing
- Fixing Transit: The Case for Privatization
- Defining Success: The Case Against Rail Transit
- The Citizens’ Guide to Transportation Reauthorization
- The Myth of the Compact City: Why Compact Development Is Not the Way to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emission
- How Urban Planners Caused the Housing Bubble
- Getting What You Paid For; Paying for What You Get: Proposals for the Next Transportation Reauthorization
- High-Speed Rail Is Not “Interstate 2.0”
- A Matter of Trust: Why Congress Should Turn Federal Lands into Fiduciary Trusts
- High-Speed Rail: The Wrong Road for America
- Rails Won’t Save America
- Roadmap to Gridlock: The Failure of Long-Range Metropolitan Transportation Planning
- Does Rail Transit Save Energy or Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
- The Planning Tax: The Case against Regional Growth-Management Planning
- Do You Know the Way to L.A.? San Jose Shows How to Turn an Urban Area into Los Angeles in Three Stressful Decades
- Debunking Portland: The City That Doesn’t Work
- The Perfect Firestorm: Bringing Forest Service Wildfire Costs under Control
- A Desire Named Streetcar: How Federal Subsidies Encourage Wasteful Local Transit Systems
- Smart Growth at the Federal Trough: EPA’s Financing of the Anti-Sprawl Movement (co-authored with Peter Samuel, then-editor of Tollroads News)
- ISTEA: A Poisonous Brew for American Cities
- Should Congress Transfer Federal Lands to the States?
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