The Public Purpose

A new book, "Sprawl Costs" evaluates the costs of unchecked dvelopment. The book merely recycles the tired claims that suburbanization (pejoratively called urban sprawl) is more costly, writes Wendell Cox.

Wendell Cox publishes an image of precisely the kind of transit-oriented development planners don't want.

Wendell Cox adjusts the Smart Growth American sprawl index for errors and concludes that Providence is the nation's least sprawling metro area and Colorado Springs sprawls less than Portland.

A proposal to provide energy efficient cars for all travel by low-income transit riders for less than the cost of transit subsidies is further refined.

Wendell Cox offers a methodology for allocating public resources to transit strategies that most effectivelycontribute to the achievement of long term transport objectives.

Wendell Cox calls for truth in advertising when government makes claims about transit.

Wendell Cox reflects on the promises of politicians to solve the problem of traffic congestion in the Toronto area by improving public transit.

As population densities rise, vehicle use also rises, writes Wendell Cox.

Wendell Cox details his experience with public transit through London. Under congestion pricing, things will get worse, not better.

Public transit cannot compete with automobiles -- even during a snow storm in St. Louis, writes Wendell Cox.

The California San Joaquin Valley's air pollution is not of its own making --- it is being exported from elsewhere.

The state is developing land at four times the rate of its population growth, mostly in cities and along interstate highways.

The Public Purpose publishes updated statistics and suggests that doubling US public transit ridership is an impossible task.

The Public Purpose ranks urban transit projects by cost, and suggests that it would be less expensive to buy a new car for each rider.