The Roads Must Roll!

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Q: How to roll the roads better?

Q2: Think roads, and for that matter passenger rail, are necessarily and of right the purview of the State, and the Federal? Or is that just habit?

John Stossel

Roads are one example that I'll cover on my TV show this week. Politicians call road management a "public good" that "government must control." Nonsense.

In 1995, a private road company added two lanes in the middle of California Highway 91, right where the median strip used to be. It then used "congestion pricing" to let some drivers pay to speed past rush-hour traffic. Using the principles of supply and demand, road operators charge higher tolls at times of day when demand is high. That encourages those who are most in a hurry to pay for what they need. It was the first time anywhere in the world that congestion pricing was used. Bureaucrats were skeptical. Now congestion pricing is a hot idea for both private and public road-management systems.

A Libertarian forum turned me on to this. Freesteader.com