*Mods: I'm not sure where the best place for this was.

 

Planetizen had a link to this series of articles from the American Conservative magazine. It's a whole series on how mass transit and urban improvement should be issues that conservatives should be supportive of. Refreshing to know I'm not alone in the Republican camp when it comes to these topics.

 

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/keep-america-moving/

*Mods: I'm not sure where the best place for this was.

 

Planetizen had a link to this series of articles from the American Conservative magazine. It's a whole series on how mass transit and urban improvement should be issues that conservatives should be supportive of. Refreshing to know I'm not alone in the Republican camp when it comes to these topics.

 

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/keep-america-moving/

 

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Ditto

 

I sure hope there's a Republicans for Rail organization, too, someday.

*Mods: I'm not sure where the best place for this was.

 

Planetizen had a link to this series of articles from the American Conservative magazine. It's a whole series on how mass transit and urban improvement should be issues that conservatives should be supportive of. Refreshing to know I'm not alone in the Republican camp when it comes to these topics.

 

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/keep-america-moving/

 

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I thought you'd like it Scrabble.

I've mentioned it before on UO here and there.  But you're right, it deserves its own thread!

Rail Against the Machine: What’s so conservative about Federal Highways?

The American Conservative

 

Conservatives do not like public transportation—or so libertarians and Republican officeholders tell us. If that means we must spend hours stuck in congested traffic, so be it. Under no circumstances would conservatives ever ride public transit.

 

Except that we are riding it, in growing numbers. Studies of passengers on rail-transit systems across the country indicate many conservatives are on board. Chicago’s excellent METRA commuter trains offer one example. A recent survey revealed that in the six-county area METRA serves, 11 percent of commuters with incomes of $75,000 or more commuted by train. In Lake County, the mean earnings of rail commuters were more than $76,000. (The figure for bus riders was less than $14,000.) Not surprisingly, the area METRA serves regularly sends Republicans to Congress.

 

Read more: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/keep-america-moving/rail-against-the-machine/

Conservation of energy and finances is best served with an efficient mass-transit system.

Engine of Prosperity

How private development can fund public infrastructure

 

by Christopher B. Leinberger

 

Real estate has caused two of the last three recessions. That is because real estate and the infrastructure that supports it—transportation, sewer, broadband, etc.—represent 35 percent of the asset base of the economy. When real estate crashes, the economy goes into a tailspin.

 

To speed up the recovery now slowly underway, the real estate sector must get back into the game. If over a third of our asset base is not engaged, the U.S. will be condemned to high unemployment and sluggish growth.

 

But the real estate recovery will not just be a continuation of the type of development of the past two generations—low density, drivable development. The Great Recession highlighted that there has been a structural shift in what the market wants. The bulk of the collapse in the housing market has been on the metropolitan fringe, exactly where the focus of drivable suburban housing growth has been.

 

more: http://www.amconmag.com/blog/keep-america-moving/engine-of-prosperity/