“Climate change is happening,” says environmentalist Michael Shellenberger. “It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.”
As the CDC recently advised — the safest way to travel during an epidemic is in your own private automobile.
Evidence is mounting evidence that urban transit has been one of the main spreaders of COVID-19.
In 2004, I was approached by Jon Caldara to come work for his organization, the Independence Institute, Colorado’s free-market think tank. Jon said he wanted me to work on housing
Fifty years ago, housing was affordable everywhere in the country. The 1970 census found that the statewide ratio of median home prices to median family incomes was greater than 3.0
CDOT’s request for proposals is based more on ideology than rationality and more on politics than economics.
Transit’s biggest growth market is higher-income people, who don’t need other taxpayers, or ride-hailing companies, to subsidize their commutes.
Denver’s first problem was in applying an affordable housing solution to a housing affordability problem.
Ride-hailing services are not the principle cause of transit ridership decline, according to a new report from TransitCenter, a New York-based transit cheerleading group. This is based on a survey
Freemark found that upzoning did not lead to an increase in the number of housing units built; it just influenced where they were built.
It is not hard to imagine that RTD wants to go back to the voters with another tax increase.
Much of RTD’s problem stems from its mania for an obsolete form of transportation: trains.
