Donald Shoup has made a career out of studying the effects of government parking mandates on the way we drive and live. After a bit of a blogospheric kerfluffle about free parking, Shoup responds in detail to one of his most persistent and consistently wrong critics.
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I’ve been waiting for this. O’Toole really irks me sometimes.Report
@Will, I think Yglesias has the best pithy take on O’Toole: getting this stuff wrong is literally his job.Report
What an excellent, detailed and cutting take down of O’Toole.
Are there any independent scholars anywhere in the planning world that takes O’Toole and his views seriously? If not, how can Cato possibly justify their continuing and embarrassing relationship with this peddler of lazy lies?Report
@Matthew Schmitz, Shoup is a much better libertarian than O’Toole. Maybe Cato can just swap the one for the other?Report