Wendell Cox on Transportation & Hurricanes on National Review Online
Cox writes, in an article calling for more highways into and out of densely packed urban centers, the oddest thing:
On the other hand if Houston, like Portland had smugly refused to build new freeway capacity seeking (hopelessly) to socially engineer people into transit, not nearly so many people could have been evacuated.
In a time of tight budgets, when a community (Portland) decides to put money into mass transit systems instead of into cars-on-highways (since no city can afford both these days), that's social engineering. But the snarky tone implies that cities and counties which expand highway capacity aren't socially engineering.
Expanding highways is just as much social engineering as putting resources into mass transit.
