Category Archive: local option taxation

Feb 06

Brother, can you spare some transit?

I was fortunate to attend a Fettuccine Forum last night, where a leading urban policy analyst showed the “drive ’til you qualify” trend actually costs people more. Jacky Grimshaw, vice president for Policy, Transportation and Communications at Chicago’s Center for Neighborhood Technology, presented some fascinating studies showing that higher transportation costs more than eat up …

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Jan 28

Local option for transit is great – IF you have the land uses

Yet in those past 15 years there’s been precious little progress toward enforcing transit-friendly development.

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