Tony Dutzik

America has a highway-happy, boondoggle-building transportation policy system. It doesn't need to.

Cross-posted from the Frontier Group. 

Cross-posted from the Frontier Group ...

Cross-posted from the Frontier Group.

As report titles go, you could hardly get less sexy than "NHCRP Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 6: The Effects of Socio-Demographics on Future Travel Demand." But buried within this wonky new document from the Transportation Research Board are ideas that can -- and should -- upend the way local, state, and federal officials plan for future transportation needs.

Last week, the Pew Research Center came out with a massive poll on political polarization in the United States. As Angie reported here, one of the main conclusions was that there is a stark divide between liberals and conservatives when it comes to the type of community in which they want to live. Conservative Americans, by and large, prefer living in spread-out rural areas and small towns, while liberals tend to prefer cities.

Cross-posted from the Frontier Group, where the author is a senior policy analyst.

Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group and co-author of a recent report on shifting transportation habits.

Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with the Frontier Group, a think tank working on issues of the environment and democracy.