For the Missouri Department of Transportation, it's not "tough choices ahead" -- it's tough choices now. Make them. That's your job.
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A small town in Minnesota just gave an extended middle finger to one of the state’s most impotent bureaucracies.
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Tonight my local city council is going to make a decision on whether or not the main stroad through town should remain a five-lane wasteland or be reduced to three lanes.
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What is the next smallest thing that can be done to make what people are already doing just a little easier?
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The megaproject is the least-dumb idea that consensus provides.
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When it comes to transportation -- specifically automobile transportation -- Texas is one of the most socialist states in the country, taxing and spending at amazing rates with an additional predilection towards borrowing enormous sums of money to build even more government-backed infrastructure.
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Resist the impulse to try and smooth over these massive distortions our development pattern has created. Start seeking a way to find equilibrium on your own terms and in the least destructive way possible.
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Jobs and growth are the results of a productive system, not a proxy for one.
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Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to fight the DOT anymore?
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It is interesting to look back and read what people thought a couple generations ago and how their thinking shapes our world today.
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We can’t over-simplify the dynamics of all that has happened in Ferguson, but it’s obvious that our platform for building places is creating dynamics primed for social upheaval. The auto-oriented development pattern is a huge financial experiment with massive social, cultural and political ramifications.
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Not all economic development is created equal. Not all local investments build wealth in our community. Not all open markets produce optimal outcomes for all places.
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The concept of investing (other people's) money in order to make money is not one that local governments should be pursuing.
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We have to stop looking at the stagnation and decline of our blocks and neighborhoods as a normal part of the development process.
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We've reconfigured our public spaces to accommodate the automobile. Today we need the humility to acknowledge that our ancestors -- who built in the traditional style -- may have known what they were doing.
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