CONTACTTRAFFICABOUT TOM VANDERBILTOTHER WRITING CONTACT ABOUT THE BOOK
« Past as Prologue: The Detroit Edition
How’s My Traffic Control? »

That Old Time Religion

I have come to view Road Use Charging symposia as prayer meetings. We preach to the Converted, whine about Congestion (you should see the pictures!), decry the free-road Infidels, mock the road-building Atheists, re-explain the evident Dogma of Adam Smith’s market economics, and await the messiah of Multimodal Commuting – led by transit and bicycles, of course.

That’s from Bern Grush’s entertaining and illuminating dispatch from TTI’s Symposium on Mileage-Based User Fees.

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Google] [MySpace] [Slashdot] [StumbleUpon] [Yahoo!]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 2:33 pm and is filed under Roads, Traffic Wonkery. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “That Old Time Religion”

  1. 2fs Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    I’m somewhat reminded of the chorus of the old XTC song “Roads Girdle the Globe”: “Hail mother motor, hail piston rotor, hail wheel!”

  2. Jack Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 8:09 am

    “Instead, I found ourselves to be 90 people with 90 opinions.” OK then here’s mine: Both! Higher gas taxes and VMT, both needed. Gas taxes can be implemented easier and quicker than VMT though.

  3. aaron Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 8:28 am

    I’m fine with both so long as the money is actually spent on buiding, improving, and maintaining roads.

  4. Aidan Bailey Says:
    September 14th, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    it doesn’t matter what religion you have, just do good and avoid evil*~`

Leave a Reply

Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

For publicity inquiries, please contact Kate Runde at Vintage: krunde@randomhouse.com.

For editorial inquiries, please contact Zoe Pagnamenta at The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency: zoe@zpagency.com.

For speaking engagement inquiries, please contact
Jenna Meulemans at the Knopf Speaker Bureau.

Order Traffic from:

Amazon | B&N | Borders
Random House | Powell’s

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Google] [MySpace] [Slashdot] [StumbleUpon] [Yahoo!]
U.S. Paperback UK Paperback
Traffic UK
Drive-on-the-left types can order the book from Amazon.co.uk.

For UK publicity enquiries please contact Rosie Glaisher at Penguin.

Upcoming Talks

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Google] [MySpace] [Slashdot] [StumbleUpon] [Yahoo!]
Twitter
April 2009
M T W T F S S
« Mar   May »
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930