Hmm. Pretty sure I read about this from the libertarians in Reason at least a decade ago. Amusing to see a few people catching up. :P While we're at it, here's some other fun transportation/planning policy articles from that group that might be relevant to the HN demographic:
Why New Urbanism Doesn't Work: https://reason.com/archives/2013/06/07/why-new-urbanism-does... - "Urban elitists don’t recognize that their policies helped create the “sprawl” that they disdain. It’s not as if middle-income San Jose workers would choose to live over the mountain ranges in places such as Tracy"
The New urbanism article was pretty bad.. The author made some OK points, but the only example he provides is the San Francisco which you can really only compare with a city like New York, London, Hong Kong.
I thought it was funny the idea that New Urbanists are this big powerful entity pushing all these regulations and codes in place, as if building developers and their investors don't have any sort of input.
Also he fails to provide any sort of evidence these new codes and regulations pushed by new urbanists are responsible for sprawl. Especially when most of the suburbs mentioned in the article are much older than new urbanist policies.
Why New Urbanism Doesn't Work: https://reason.com/archives/2013/06/07/why-new-urbanism-does... - "Urban elitists don’t recognize that their policies helped create the “sprawl” that they disdain. It’s not as if middle-income San Jose workers would choose to live over the mountain ranges in places such as Tracy"
Self-driving cars could destroy fine-based city government! https://reason.com/blog/2015/07/15/self-driving-cars-could-d... - "What's the downside? Increasing automation limits the ability of authorities to profit off human error."