Great Questions About High-Speed Rail at the Columbia Daily Tribune
Today’s Columbia Daily Tribune has a terrific editorial asking a lot of tough questions about the value of high-speed rail...
Show-Me Institute Study on High-Speed Rail
Today, we released a new study about the proposed high-speed rail corridor that, if constructed, would connect Saint Louis, Kansas...
Urban Planners Know What Is Good for Us!
It is a delicious coincidence that the Show-Me Institute is bringing the Antiplanner himself, Randal O’Toole, to St. Louis on...
Interstate Rail Project Would Bring High-Speed Spending
On June 17, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) asked states for proposals for spending the $8 billion of stimulus money...
Randal O’Toole Op-Ed on High-Speed Rail
A few days ago the Post-Dispatch published an op-ed from Randal O’Toole of the Cato Institute, about Midwest high-speed rail. O’Toole...
Low-Cost Op-Eds About High-Cost Light Rail
Show-Me Institute contributors and scholars have recently submitted a number of opinion pieces about the proposed Metro tax increase in...
Questions of Transit Efficiency Need to Include Both Costs and Benefits
What is the most efficient means of getting people from the place they are to the place they want to...
Upcoming Ballot Issues
With an election approaching, so I’ve heard, you might be interested in some of the ballot issues that always seem...
Ridership Estimates? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Ridership Estimates
Instead of providing my own commentary in this post, I’m going to let the following quotes from various sources speak...
Anti-Light Rail Campaign in Kansas City
The Kansas City Star ran an article today about a new group that’s campaigning against the city’s light rail proposal....
Light-Rail Systems Are a False Promise
Rail transit has become such an albatross around the necks of the American cities that have it that it is...
Light Rail Op-Ed By Randal O’Toole in the Post-Dispatch
Randal O’Toole had an op-ed published in the Post-Dispatch yesterday, about light rail and the environment. It is a very...
People Respond to Pricing
Incentives and prices matter. As prices change, habits and activities change. Here are two articles relating to how people are...
Kansas City Light Rail Update
I am going to take the recent news about light rail in Kansas City as an opportunity to further plug...
Strikes and Gutters in Kansas City Election Results
It was probably a little premature and St. Louis-centric for me to call the Franklin County Charter victory the highlight...
A Tale of Two Subways
Sunday’s Post-Dispatch featured an article reporting that Metro, with the aid of its newly contracted security firm The Wackenhut Corp.,...
Light Rail Study Didn’t Focus on Crime
The Kansas City Star‘s Prime Buzz blog yesterday had a couple of posts criticizing our recent light rail study‘s use...
Overturning Light Rail a Good Decision for Kansas City
When citizens pass an initiative referendum, judges or elected officials should use the greatest of caution in exercising their...
Media Round-Up for Kansas City Light-Rail Release
The Show-Me Institute’s study on light rail proposals for Kansas City certainly received a good deal of attention yesterday. Many...
New Study Analyzes Light-Rail Proposals for Kansas City
Today, the Show-Me Institute released a new policy study, "Review of Kansas City Transit Plans," by Randal O’Toole. The study...
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