PolicyGuy

Tuesday, September 30, 2003


Chicago-Milwaukee Rail?
Milwaukee-area officials have agreed to spend $91.5 million in federal funds to study ways to extend Metra service from Kenosha to Milwaukee. (For information on Chicagoland's passenger rail system, click here.) Mass transit usually doesn't live up to its promise. Population density in America is seldom high enough to justify its cost. For a review of mass transit in general, see The Public Purpose.

Labels:


"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

Home
BlogMatrix