A new study by a national transportation group confirms what metro area drivers already know, as well as the findings of a landmark American Experiment traffic congestion study. The Twin…
The following article was written by Randal O’Toole for the Cato Institute: Americans drove nearly 96 percent as many miles in May 2021 as in the same month in 2019, indicating a return…
Is Minnesota locking in an obsolete technology?
American mass transit systems face challenges from demographics, how people work, and ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft. Randal O’Toole discusses what agencies should do to respond. In short, mass…
American Experiment campaign highlights that the Met Council and MnDOT have no plan to relieve congestion. In fact, they like it.
Last May, American Experiment released a paper on traffic congestion in the Twin Cities by Randal O’Toole. That paper was the basis for the web site MNCongestion.com and a campaign…
Minnesota serves as a crucial link between the Pacific Northwest and Chicago; BNSF moves more than 140,000 carloads of Minnesota corn, wheat, soybeans and other agricultural products, as well as…
American Experiment has enjoyed unprecedented levels of success, inside and out.
The Star Tribune has released its list of the most-read op-eds of 2017, and the Center had two in the top ten. Katherine Kersten’s blockbuster piece on political indoctrination in…
The fatal derailment of the debut trip of Amtrak’s new Seattle to Portland “high-speed” route this week prompted national transit expert and critic Randal O’Toole to post the following commentary on…
The Met Council’s controversial $2 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit line still hangs on by a thread. So do proposed LRT lines in Nashville, San Antonio and Tampa, among other…
Yesterday’s Star Tribune headlined: “Solutions sought with Twin Cities traffic at its most congested since 1993.” The Minnesota Department of Transportation released its annual Twin Cities congestion report last week,…
American Experiment plans an aggressive fall of new and worthwhile efforts.
DFL Governor Mark Dayton’s plan, like many “blue state” governors, uses “transit oriented development” or TOD, to pull money out of the suburbs and greater Minnesota to fund and re-enforce…
Clogged roadways are the calculated consequence of policies to drive people to mass transit.
Everyone who drives in the Twin Cities knows that traffic is terrible here, but most people don’t understand why. This morning I had an op-ed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune…
Minnesota's state government should take the lead on building the new infrastructure the Twin Cities need
Increasing productivity is the key to economic growth. A transport policy which boosts productivity will make us better off
Prices for road use will reduce congestion. This will lower the cost of driving
Twin Cities traffic congestion has reached the crisis point with metro area drivers stuck in traffic 47 hours per year on average compared to 12 hours in 1982. But instead…
Twin Cities traffic congestion has reached the crisis point with metro area drivers stuck in traffic 47 hours per year on average compared to 12 hours in 1982. But instead…
The latest issue of the Center’s fantastic quarterly magazine, Thinking Minnesota, has a terrific piece by transportation expert Randal O’Toole that delineates all the reasons the Met Council screwed up…
The Met Council always expected the Southwest Light Rail Transit line to be on the short list in Washington—the short list for $895 million in federal funding for construction. Instead,…
The Met Council always expected the Southwest Light Rail Transit line to be on the short list in Washington—the short list for $895 million in federal funding for construction. Instead,…