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Access and egress rights, 265, 266, 283–84, 352 full, 173 insurance, 413 road, 265, 266, 276, 277 search, 283 Accidents, causes, 5, 348n, 350 Air pollution, 406 American Civil Liberties Union, 206 American Public Works Association, 230 American Trucking Associations, 382 Anti-immigration, 216–17 Antisocial behavior, 110 Apathy, 6 Asset value, 387 Attribution, 336 Austrian economic perspective, 358, 359n, 369 Automobile banning against, 76, 83 Automobile-mass transit synchronization, lack of, 66 Average revenue curve (demand curve), 32 469 Index Banfield, Edward C., 51, 52, 55 Bankruptcies, 23–24 Baumol, William J., 150 Bennett, James T., 335 Bish, Robert L., 53, 64, 74 Blockades, 283–84, 285, 288 Bonavia, Michael R., 100, 102 Borcherding, Thomas, 334 Bribes, 19 Bridges, 298, 301–02, 304, 306–08, 316, 319, 321, 323, 328, 356n, 359 Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company, 240 Brownlee, O.H., 72, 114, 115, 116 Buchanan, James M., 49, 50, 72 Burchard, John, 37 Bureaucratic statist system, 76 Bureaus, regulatory, 160, 163 Bus lanes, special, 84–86 California Private Transportation Company, 232 California State Route, 120, 269, 276 Callahan, J.M., 191 Campbell, H.E., 156 Capital, 101, 102, 117, 118, 130, 148–49
470 The Privatization of Roads and Highways Capitalism, 319; see also Laissezfaire Carpooling, 388–89 Cars vs. people, 82 Case probability, 132 Central planning, 370–72 Cigarettes, 207–14 Class probability, 132 Clay, Henry, 103 Coase, Ronald H., 175, 210 Coercion, 288–90 Competition, 18–19, 30–31, 155, 160, 162, 163, 170, 181 perfect, 30–33, 36, 368–70, 369n, 373 real, 369 Competitive industry, 261, 325 Competitive market process, 35 Congestion, 47–48, 49–96, 229–32, 356–58, 371–73, 376 crisis, 69, 73 criteria to reduce, 79–80 economic approach to, 11 solutions automobile banning, 76, 82 bus lanes, 64, 84–87 central planning, 370–72 electronic monitoring, 64, 65, 83, 86, 91 expanding roads, 72–73 free fare, 90–95 government rules, 59 improved mass transit, 88 limited turns, 61 reversible one-way streets, 61 staggered work hours, 59 surveillance, 63–65, 83 zoning, 65, 68 Congestion vs. density, 51 Contracts, implicit, 344 Cooper, Norman L., 113 Courts, 322–23 Covenants, restrictive, 121 De minimis argument, 302 Deaths, highway, 4, 188, 189, 191n, 193, 349, 351, 356, 363–64 street owner liability, 342 decline with enterprise system, 15 Delanoy, Chris, 327 Demand curve (average revenue curve), 32, 140 Demsetz, Harold, 210 Density, 51 Department of Transportation (DOT), 381n, 399 DiLorenzo, Tom, 335 Discrimination, 218, 220, 221 Doctrine of ad coelum, 296–300 diffused benefits, 137 revealed preference, 126, 132–35, 136 sanctity of property values, 288 Dollar vote, 234 Double decking, 37–38 Drinking/drunk driving, 347–52 Driverists, 157 Dyckman, John W., 73 Econometrics, 132 Economies of scale, 15, 373–75 science of, 71 Electronic Road Pricing (ERP), 272–73 Eminent domain, 179, 255, 258–60, 407, 366–68, 375, 377 challenge, 17, 19
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Introduction Most people who read t
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