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GOP Advances Two Decades

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A left-wing blog accuses Republicans of wanting to “bring transport policy back to the 1950s.” At least, the GOP is two decades ahead of where the Democrats wanted to go, considering that 110-mph intercity trains and light rail both date back to the 1930s, and streetcars to several decades earlier.

Denver Zephyr traveling at 90 mph in 1939. Otto Perry photo. The train’s average speed of about 65 mph was far greater than the so-called high-speed trains proposed for Ohio (average 38.5 mph) or Wisconsin (average 59 mph).

The truth is that Republicans are proposing to be far more fiscally responsible than the Dems. Where House Transportation Committee chair James Oberstar proposed a $500 billion spending bill when less than $300 billion was available to spend, Republicans say they will spend no more than is actually available.

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CBO: User Fees for Infrastructure

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The Antiplanner has long argued that transportation and other infrastructure should be paid for out of user fees, because user fees are the best indication that such projects will be truly productive. A report this month from the Congressional Budget Office reaches a similar conclusion.

The report observes that “carefully selected infrastructure projects can contribute to long-term economic growth,” but that “the potential gains from public spending for transportation and water infrastructure depends crucially on identifying economically justifiable projects.” In order to identify such projects, “the demand for infrastructure could be better aligned with the existing supply by putting a price on those services that reflects the full cost of using infrastructure.” This price should include “both the cost of providing infrastructure services and the costs that one person’s use imposes on others”–in other words, congestion pricing.

The report adds that the federal contribution to infrastructure projects should depend on “where the benefits are expected to accrue.” Projects that primarily provide local benefits should primarily be funded by the locals, while projects that provide more national benefits could get more federal funding. Federal funding of primarily local projects would “result in too many projects, or projects that are too expensive, being undertaken.” Continue reading →

Obama’s High-Speed Bus Plan

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Urban Sustainability

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Portland, Oregon is full of sustainability advocates who look forward to petrocollapse and “experiment” with such things as country living and learning to live as voluntary peasants. Two such sustainability advocates are trained engineers and have a blog promoting urban gardening and raising chickens as if these were somehow new ideas.

Apparently, these engineers have discovered a new means to sustainability: robbing banks. Police allege they had already robbed two banks and had plans to rob a third when they put up their latest post about pickling beets “found” (quotation marks theirs) in a farmer’s field.

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Thanks to Bojack for pointing this out.

Back in the Air Again

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Transit Unions: Victims or Bullies?

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A Portland transit union leader says his members have been “victimized” by a free-market group that posted their salaries on line. But who is the real victim here: the people collecting the salaries or the people whose taxes pay the salaries even if they never ride transit?

Back in June, a free-market group in New York posted salaries for all government workers in that state, leading the New York Times to calculate that more than 8,000 New York City transit workers earn more than $100,000 a year. Portland’s TriMet has only about 100 employees who are paid more than $100,000. Most are administrators, but at least one is a bus driver and several work in maintenance.

Of course, New York’s MTA has 70,000 employees compared with about 2,600 who work for TriMet. The list of TriMet salaries also lists $18,540 in benefits for most employees, but this does not count unfunded pension liabilities that the agency has incurred for each employee.

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Debate Post-Mortem

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The Antiplanner’s debate with American Public Transportation Association President Bill Millar focused on transit privatization. The Antiplanner argued that private operators would provide excellent, low-cost service where the demand for such service existed, such as in dense cities and low-income neighborhoods, while still providing adequate demand-responsive transit (like SuperShuttle) in low-density neighborhoods where demand was low. Millar expressed skepticism that this would happen.

But rather than debate this in detail, Millar spent much of his time claiming that I “cherry picked the data” to support my preconceived notions. He claimed that transit was not a business, but a “public service” and that everyone benefitted when taxpayers subsidized 80 percent of the cost of carrying a few riders. He pointed out that 26 percent of Americans rode transit at least once last year, which doesn’t exactly provide much justification for the other 74 percent to subsidize it.

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The Case for Privatizing Transit

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The Antiplanner will be presenting a new paper tomorrow at the Cato Institute titled “Fixing Transit: The Case for Privatization.” The paper was not yet posted on the Cato web site, but you can download an advance copy.

Most transit systems in America were private and profitable, if declining, as late as the 1960s. Since being taken over by the government, transit productivity has greatly declined. The number of passenger trips carried per transit employee has fallen by around 50 percent and the inflation-adjusted cost of carrying one rider or one passenger mile has grown by about 150 percent.

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Back in the Air Again

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Today the Antiplanner is flying to Boston and MIT, where I will be one of a series of “distinguished speakers” on transportation issues. My presentation will be at 12:30 pm in the Stratton Student Center, W20-307.

On Wednesday, the Cato Institute will present two events, both of which will compare the Antiplanner’s free-market views with the pro-government transit views of William Millar, the president of the American Public Transportation Association. The first event will be at noon and will be available via web feed and video after the event. The second will take place on Capital Hill and will be at 3:00 pm. Although the events will be structured slightly differently, both will cover similar ground.
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On Friday, the Antiplanner will be in Dallas speaking to a seminar sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis. I’ll try to make additional posts during the week.

More Election Results

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Progressive Railroading lists a few more election results, oriented of course to pro-rail transit. That article in turn links to the Center for Transportation Excellence, a group focused on government “investment” in infrastructure, which claims that the vast majority of transportation measures passed this year (including elections prior to November).

Many of the measures on CTE’s list were road measures (which, if they were funded by sales taxes, the Antiplanner would have opposed). CTE somehow managed to not count the Dane and Kenosha county rail measures that lost. Two of the rail measures that passed were bond measures in Arlington and Fairfax County, Virginia, to support capital improvements (really maintenance) on the DC MetroRail system. Other cities that accept federal funds for rail transit should take note: they will ultimately be responsible for rebuilding the system when it wears out.

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