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Urban Growth and Transportation

Opinion and Commentary


"Smart-Growth Plans Are a Failure in Portland," by Randal O'Toole, Houston Chronicle, November 14, 2009

"Clunkering Down," by Doug Bandow, American Spectator, August 28, 2009

"Are Proposals For High-speed Rail a Boondoggle?," by Randal O'Toole, Detroit Free Press (Online), August 3, 2009

"Why PA Shouldn't Build High-Speed Rail," by Randal O'Toole, The Bulletin, July 24, 2009

"Fuel Standards Are Killing GM," by Alan Reynolds, The Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2009

"High Speed Spending," by Randal O'Toole, Gainesville Sun, June 18, 2009

"All Cost, No Benefit," by Jerry Taylor, USA Today, May 20, 2009

"A High-Speed Rail Mirage," by Randal O'Toole, USA Today, May 20, 2009

"High-Speed Rail Is No Solution," by Randal O'Toole, Cleveland Plain Dealer, May 4, 2009

"Trains Are for Tourists," by Randal O'Toole, National Public Radio, March 19, 2009

"How Big Government Infrastructure Projects Go Wrong," by Jim Powell, Reason, March 2, 2009

"Save Washington's Metro by Privatizing the System," by Randal O'Toole, DC Examiner, February 26, 2009

"Rules for Infrastructure Stimulus," by Randal O'Toole, Washington Times, February 16, 2009

"Light Rail Isn't the Track to the Future," by Randal O'Toole, San Antonio Express-News, February 9, 2009

"NY Waterway: A Private Transit Success Story," by Randal O'Toole, Hawaii Reporter, January 20, 2009

"Big Burdens from Growth Management," by Randal O'Toole, USA Today, September 30, 2008

"Light-Rail Systems Are a False Promise," by Randal O'Toole, Cato.org, September 16, 2008

"Cancel FasTracks," by Randal O'Toole, Rocky Mountain News, September 8, 2008

"A Big Surprise on Gas," by Indur Goklany and Jerry Taylor, Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2008

"Real Global Warming Fix," by Randal O'Toole, Denver Daily News, July 1, 2008

"Rail Transit Just Isn't Trying to Improve Fuel Efficiency," by Randal O'Toole, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 15, 2008

"Solving Pump Pain," by Jerry Taylor, New York Post, June 2, 2008

"McCain-Clinton 2008," by Jerry Taylor and Jagadeesh Gokhale, National Review (Online), May 14, 2008

"Focus on Fuel-Friendly Cars, Not Rail," by Randal O'Toole, Seattle Times, May 1, 2008

"More Pain at the Pump," by Thomas A. Firey, Baltimore Sun, March 13, 2008

"Costs Will Outweigh Benefits," by Randal O'Toole, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, February 8, 2008

"Corn on the Mob," by Patrick J. Michaels, American Spectator (Online), January 30, 2008

"Don't Hobble Houston with Land Planning," by Randal O'Toole, Houston Chronicle, January 19, 2008

"When Government Plans, It Usually Fails," by Randal O'Toole, The Baltimore Sun, December 27, 2007

"Paying the Planning Tax," by Randal O'Toole, American Spectator (Online), December 6, 2007

"Why California Home Prices are So High," by Randal O'Toole, North County Times, November 3, 2007

"San Jose's Public Planning Debacle," by Randal O'Toole, American Spectator, November 1, 2007

"U.S. Forest Service Has Money to Burn," by Randal O'Toole, OCRegister.com, October 29, 2007

"Government Plans Don't Work," by Randal O'Toole, Christian Science Monitor, October 18, 2007

"Dispelling Transit Myths," by Randal O'Toole, Charlotte Observer, October 12, 2007

"BART Connection to San Jose Will Solve Nothing," by Randal O'Toole, San Jose Business Journal, October 5, 2007

"Portland Rail Fiasco: Hawaii Should Hear the Whole Story Before Committing to Multi-Billion Rail Project," by Randal O'Toole, Hawaii Reporter, September 6, 2007

"Light Rail Doesn't Work," by Randal O'Toole, Ottawa Citizen, August 22, 2007

"Debunking Portland: The Public Transit Myth," by Randal O'Toole, TCSdaily.com, August 15, 2007

"Infrastructure Gridlock," by Randal O'Toole, American Spectator, August 10, 2007

"Air Traffic Control," by Chris Edwards, Cato@Liberty, July 23, 2007

"Wrong Way to Make a Region Livable," by Randal O'Toole, Vancouver Sun, June 12, 2007

"Unintended Consequences," by Indur Goklany, International Herald Tribune, April 23, 2007

"On Earth Day, Remember The Humans," by Indur Goklany, American.com, April 22, 2007

"Bill of Wrongs," by Stephen Slivinski, American.com, March 21, 2007

"Inconvenient Truths," by Patrick J. Michaels, National Review (Online), February 23, 2007

"Ethanol Makes Gasoline Costlier, Dirtier," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Chicago Sun-Times, January 27, 2007

"America, 300 Million Strong," by Daniel Griswold, McClatchy News Service, October 11, 2006

"Compounding Disaster with Disaster," by Russell S. Sobel and Peter T. Leeson, Houston Chronicle, August 28, 2006

"Stuck on Empty," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, National Review (Online), February 3, 2006

"Foul Ballpark," by Dennis Coates, Reason (Online), December 16, 2005

"No Longer out of Sight," by Michael D. Tanner, Washington Times, September 9, 2005

"Storms of Stupidity on the Op-Ed Pages," by Will Wilkinson, Cato.org, September 9, 2005

"Redesigning Trucks," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, August 28, 2005

"Class Struggle?," by Alan Reynolds, The Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2005

"Why Gas Costs So Much In Maryland," by Thomas A. Firey, Cato.org, May 1, 2005

"Don't Tighten Travel Rules," by Patrick Basham, USA Today, May 1, 2005

"Thinking Outside the Black Box," by Jim Harper, American Spectator, December 10, 2004

"Highway Robbery," by Stephen Slivinski, Cato.org, July 27, 2004

"Energy Disinformation," by Alan Reynolds, Washington Times, June 27, 2004

"The Nanny State Strikes Again," by William A. Niskanen, Fox News (Online), December 26, 2003

"Untrue at Any Speed," by Stephen Moore, National Review (Online), December 2, 2003

"Nothing to Fear from Open Skies with European Union," by Thomas A. Firey, The Hill, October 1, 2003

"Put Amtrak in Hands of Private Company," by Edward L. Hudgins, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 30, 2003

"Unintended Side Effects," by Richard W. Rahn, Washington Times, August 11, 2003

"Union Tactics Cost Jobs," by Stephen Moore, Washington Times, March 13, 2003

"Government Should Steer Clear of the Fuel Economy Issue," by William A. Niskanen and Peter Van Doren, Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2002

"FAIR Ads Unfairly Blame Immigrants for Urban Sprawl, Traffic Jams," by Daniel Griswold, Knight-Ridder, October 5, 2000

"EPA Funds Anti-Sprawl Politics with Tax Dollars," by Randal O'Toole, Houston Chronicle, February 23, 2000

"More Money for U.S. Land Acquisition? That's a Bone-headed Move," by Deroy Murdock, National Review, September 11, 2000



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