Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7425-5113-8 • Paperback • October 2008 • $32.00 • (£25.00)
978-0-7425-6609-5 • eBook • September 2006 • $30.00 • (£25.00)
Ted Balaker is the Jacobs Fellow and editor of Privatization Watch at the Reason Foundation. Balaker spent five years with ABC Network News producing pieces on a wide array of issues, including privatization, government reform, regulation, addiction, the environment, and transportation policy.
Sam Staley is director of urban and land use policy at the Reason Foundation. He is also senior fellow at both the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions. Staley has more than 25 years of experience working in urban policy and has written more than 80 professional articles and reports and his commentary has been nationally syndicated. He is the author of Drug Policy and the Decline of American Cities (1992) and Planning Rules and Urban Economic Performance: The Case of Hong Kong (1994), and co-editor of Smarter Growth: Market-Based Strategies for Land Use Planning in the 21st Century (2001).
Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I. Mobility matters more than you think
Chapter 3 1. The Speed of Life
Chapter 4 2. What Mobility Has Created
Part 5 Part II. Congestion matters more than you think
Chapter 6 3. Slowing Economic Life
Chapter 7 4. Stopping Life
Part 8 Part III. Why congestion keeps getting worse
Chapter 9 5. The 10 Myths of Car-Crazy Suburbia
Chapter 10 6. The Congestion Lobby
Part 11 Part IV. The Solution
Chapter 12 7. Learning from Overseas
Chapter 13 8. Houston Takes the Congestion Bull by the Horns
Chapter 14 9. Bringing Customer Service to the Road
Chapter 15 10. Getting from Here to There: Top 10 Congestion-Busters
Chapter 16 11. The Road More Traveled
This book adds three unusual assets to the congestion debate—it's bright and readable, chock-full of facts, and provides real world solutions. The Road More Traveled should be required reading not only for planners and their students, but for anyone who loves cities and wants them to thrive as real places, not merely as museums, in the 21st century.
— Joel Kotkin, Irvine Senior Fellow, New America Foundation, and author of The City: A Global History
The Road More Traveled is a well-written, logical, and practical approach to congestion mitigation in America. I strongly encourage that it be read by every public policy maker who is struggling for real solutions to the traffic congestion crisis facing our nation. It dispels long-standing myths, replaces them with factual data, and offers results-based solutions.
— S. David Doss, State Transportation Board of Georgia
The Road More Traveled provides a thoughtful analysis on the causes of congestion and offers detailed suggestions for relieving it in America's cities. Balaker and Staley clearly debunk the myth that there is nothing we can do about congestion.
— Mary E. Peters, National Director, Transportation Policy and Consulting, HDR Inc. and former Administrator for the Federal Highway Administratio
The Road More Traveled clearly outlines the transportation infrastructure problems facing our country and examines several innovative funding solutions. This book will change the way Americans view our highways and interstates and show them how we can build better roads at less expense for the next generation.
— Senator Jim DeMint, South Carolina
The Road More Traveled is an important wake-up call to us all, but especially to policy makers and transportation officials. Balaker and Staley convincingly show how costly traffic conjestion is. But more importantly they demonstrate that the defeatists who claim that we should just learn to live with gridlock are wrong. The book lays out a road map for restoring our lost mobility. One can only hope that policy makers, government officials, community leaders, and the media read this book.
— Robert D. Atkinson, president of The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and author of Supply-Side Follies: Why Conservative Economics
Many people complain about highway traffic and many policy makers respond with plans for more transit and more HOV lanes. To help us all get past the quackery, Balaker and Staley argue persuasively for policies that might actually work. Buy their book, read it, and then send it on to your favorite political representative.
— Peter Gordon, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California