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Tony Dutzik

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Opinion: To Halt Wasteful Highways, America Needs a ‘Road Review’

By Tony Dutzik | May 24, 2023 | No Comments
n February, the government of Wales announced that it was scrapping all major road-building projects. The move came after a year-long “roads review” in which a government-appointed panel systematically reviewed the nation’s road-building program in light of its climate and environmental goals. To an American steeped in our highway-happy, boondoggle-building transportation policy system, the summary of the roads review reads like something out of a particularly good fantasy novel. But could it happen here, too, if the people lead the way?
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Revisiting the Peak Car Debate

By Tony Dutzik | Aug 26, 2016 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group. I’ve never liked the term “peak car.” First, it was always unclear exactly what was supposed to be peaking – total vehicle travel, per-capita travel, car ownership, or all of the above? Second, like peak oil before it, “peak car” applies a catchy name to a collection of concepts that […]
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Why Fixing the Rust Belt Could Help Save the Climate

By Tony Dutzik | May 23, 2016 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group. The form of the built environment – the shape of our cities and towns – is directly related to our consumption of energy and our impact on the climate (PDF). People who live in areas where walking, biking and transit are viable means of transportation – and where car trips, […]
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Toward Zero Carbon Transportation: Technology and Institutional Change

By Tony Dutzik | May 19, 2016 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group. As the parents of two teenage boys, my wife and I are required to bore them periodically with stories of how things were When We Were Your Age. One of those stories relates to food. My wife has often told the kids that she did not know what a whole […]
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Rising to the Political Challenge of a Carbon-Free Transportation System

By Tony Dutzik | May 18, 2016 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group. If we are to eliminate transportation’s contribution to climate change by mid-century, we will likely need to do some things in the coming years that currently seem politically impossible. Our upcoming report, A New Way Forward, lays out some of the options: cities might embrace a new vision for urban […]
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Why Federal Efforts to Link Transportation to Climate Change Matter

By Tony Dutzik | Apr 26, 2016 | No Comments
Cross posted from the Frontier Group. Twenty-five years ago this spring, I was a fresh-faced undergrad at Penn State enrolled in a course on existential threats to civilization, including climate change. We knew then (and yes, with a reasonable degree of certainty we did know) that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were […]
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Is Raising the Gas Tax Really the Answer?

By Tony Dutzik | May 6, 2015 | No Comments
Cross-posted from the Frontier Group … In the 1920s, Great Britain debated the future of its Road Fund – a pot of money raised from vehicle excise taxes and devoted exclusively to road repair. Then-Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill opposed the fund, arguing that, if drivers paid taxes dedicated solely to roads, “It will […]
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