Category Archives: Transportation

(August 4, 2007) Long-suffering car commuters in Stockholm finally got their wish this week: value for money in the use of their roads. Users of rapid transit services got their wish, too: transit that is truly rapid and provides better service. Pedestrians are breathing freer. All are saying “skol” to the resumption of tolling on Stockholm roads. Continue reading →

(October 18, 2006) Traffic congestion costs Toronto an estimated $1.8 billion a year, and a poll of business leaders this month said fixing it should be the new city council’s first priority. Lawrence Solomon argues that toll roads are not part of the solution – they are the entire solution. Continue reading →

(March 3, 2006) London began tolling its downtown roads in 2003. The novel plan proved to be brilliant, the naysayers proved to be wrong: Traffic congestion ended as some 70,000 travellers per day switched to public transit, motorcycles, bicycles, taxis and other alternatives. Continue reading →

(May 28, 2005) In almost every country on earth, road networks have been bastions of government control, operating outside the rules of supply and demand, resistant to technological improvements that would lower cost and boost efficiency, and all but impervious to market forces. Continue reading →

(March 17, 2004) You have a flat tire. Or you need a tow. Or a boost. Or you’ve run out of gas. if you’re like millions of Canadians, you call the Canadian Automobile Association to get you going again. Continue reading →