Tony Dutzik
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Of Shipyards and Golf Courses: Infrastructure and Economic Nostalgia
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White Nationalist Trump appointee Steve Bannon's ideas about infrastructure are from another era.
DOTs Now Have No Excuse for Ignoring Changing Transportation Trends
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As report titles go, you could hardly get less sexy than “NHCRP Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 6: The Effects of Socio-Demographics on Future Travel Demand.” But buried within this wonky new document from the Transportation Research Board are ideas that can — and should — upend the way local, state, and federal […]
How Transit Pays for the Automobile’s Sins
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Tony Dutzik is a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Group. An op-ed in Friday’s Washington Post by three professors of urban planning rained on the parade of transit advocates celebrating a new 57-year high in transit ridership. Ridership, the authors wrote, has actually fallen on a per-capita basis since 2008 (as has driving, by […]
Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: U.S. DOT Fails to Get Travel Forecasting Right
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The U.S. Department of Transportation seems to be stuck in a bizarre time warp. For nine years in a row Americans have decreased their average driving miles. Yet U.S. DOT’s most recent biennial report to Congress on the state of the nation’s transportation system, released last Friday, forecasts that total vehicle miles will increase between […]