Need to convince a conservative friend or colleague that transit is important?
Check out this series from The American Conservative:
- Rail Against the Machine
- William S. Lind on Federal Highway Funding
- Engine of Prosperity
- Christopher B. Leinberger on how private development can fund transit
- Urban Outfitters
- John Norquist explains why the right can’t give up on cities
- The Real Costs
- Glen Bottoms does the numbers
- Bringing Back Downtown
- John Robert Smith says there is life left in America’s Main Streets
Next month, The American Conservative’s nonprofit parent, The American Ideas Institute, will launch a new center on transportation. The center will work to showcase conservative arguments for a balanced transportation system in which rail and roads complement one another. The new center’s director is William S. Lind, a contributing editor at The American Conservative. Lind co-authored Moving Minds: Conservatives and Public Transportation with the late Paul M. Weyrich, a well-known conservative supporter of rail transportation. As Lind writes,
The American Ideas Institute’s new center will work to ensure a strong conservative voice for improved public transit, including both urban and intercity rail. Conservatives have long supported a strong national defense, and nothing is more essential to America’s security than reducing our dependence on automobiles fueled largely with imported oil. Improved public transportation can be a particularly effective partner in this process, with technologies, especially electric railways, that have been tested and proven in more than a century of service.