http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/02/06/our-car-oriented-transportation-system-is-totally-unfair/ Fiscal and market perspectives on transportation and land use Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:15:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/02/06/our-car-oriented-transportation-system-is-totally-unfair/#comment-15 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:20:18 +0000 http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/?p=263#comment-15 Fundamentally I agree about transit agnosticism. My feeling is that emphasizing the ways the US stacked the deck against transit helps show how car infrastructure wasn’t automatic or inevitable; at least when I talk to people many just assume we had to spend billions on that infrastructure. They see roads as “normal” and transit as “extra.” Once people accept the arbitrariness of our system — which most that I’ve met do not still — I’d take a more agnostic attitude.

]]> http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/02/06/our-car-oriented-transportation-system-is-totally-unfair/#comment-14 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:57:23 +0000 http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/?p=263#comment-14 No question, America has subsidized automobility. Europe has pursued a different model, but not one we necessarily want to pursue — the Europeans have subsidized mass transit and taxed automobility. To my mind, the Smart Growth conservative is agnostic, not preferring one mode over the other. Create a level playing field — no subsidies for anyone — and let individual consumers select the modes that optimize their well being.

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