In the book, I briefly mention Donald Schoup’s excellent book, The High Price of Free Parking, but I don’t go into great detail about how changing the way we price parking might improve our quality of life. As it happens, a couple weeks ago, economist Tyler Cowen wrote a great Op-Ed about this very [...]
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As most readers of the book and this blog know, I work in public health, and while the intersection of public health and going carless isn’t a big theme in the book, it’s a big interest of mine. On his blog (which I don’t visit often enough), Ken Archer rightly chides the CDC for [...] In the book, I write quite a bit about the true costs of owning and operating a car, and offer tools and tips for figuring out just how much money you may be spending on your big metal dependent every year. But there’s a whole other side to this that I barely touch on [...] In case you missed it, current Transportation Secretary (and former congressman from IL-18) Ray LaHood got the Deborah Solomon treatment in last week’s New York Times Magazine. The interview is fairly broad but not very deep, but still gives some notion of the administrations priorities when it comes to livable communities. But although I’ve [...] |
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