Transportation
Is Transit Doomed in the U.S.? Discuss.
Two rival pundits face off over federal funding, the transit “death spiral,” and where all the riders have gone.
Randal O’Toole, the well-known anti-transit gadfly, recently joined transportation consultant Jarrett Walker in Washington, D.C., for a debate about the future of public transit. The rival pundits have sparred about public transportation many times on their Antiplanner and Human Transit blogs, but this was the first time they’d ever met; they even ate breakfast together at the Lincoln Waffle Shop across from Ford’s Theatre.
As it turns out, the men have more in common than you might think: For starters, both began thinking about urban transportation in Portland, Oregon.