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Joe Winter
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Amazingly, not everyone understands the link between road building and traffic congestion. Well, maybe this isn't so amazing because the common solution -- building bigger highways -- is so simple and easy to grasp while the real life consequences are not obvious.
Transportation infrastructure development is in some ways analagous to providing welfare for the poor. There are effective ways of getting the job done, and there are ineffective ways.
First, let's go over the ineffective ways, which are parochial, one-size-fits-all solutions, like traditional AFDC -- the wasteful predecessor to TANF. In its intial years, I'm sure AFDC did quite well in helping to alleviate poverty. After all, the Depression was in full-swing at the time, and just about any government program short of violent coersion would have helped the situation. Similarly, the big highway approach to transportation infrastructure development is a nice idea at first, but its benefits quickly evaporate due to the sort of dependent behavior it encourages.
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