THE JEFFERSON CLUB and its co-sponsors invite you to hear
RANDAL O'TOOLE, Senior Economist at the Thoreau Institute
on the topic SOUTH BAY TRANSIT DECONGESTION
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
7:00 - 8:30 P.M.
California Mission Room (formerly The Brass Rail)
Benson Memorial Center, Lower Level
Santa Clara University
Admission is free! Open to the public!
TOPIC:
Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is spending an additional $185 million (that's our taxes!) over the next two years just for studies (and "track issues") of the BART project, in the hope of obtaining partial federal funding for the estimated $4.7 billion needed to extend BART from Fremont to Santa Clara (16.3 miles = $288+ million/mile). Randal O'Toole will talk about the economics of both BART and its alternatives--alternatives which could offer a dramatic increase in what we want, transit decongestion, via common-sense rethinking and transportation systems changes.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Randal O'Toole is an economist who has studied public land management, urban planning, and transportation issues for more than three decades. He is the author of "A Desire Named Streetcar: How Federal Subsidies Encourage Wasteful Local Transit Systems," and "Great Rail Disasters: Analysis of Rail Transit Systems in the U.S.," along with many other articles and books. O'Toole has taught at Yale, U.C. Berkeley, and Utah State University. Since 2003, he has been the Director of the American Dream Coalition, and he is a Director for the Independence Institute's Center for the American Dream, as well as Senior Economist for the Thoreau Institute, Cato Institute Senior Fellow, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.
This event is proudly co-sponsored by:
* Santa Clara University's Civil Society Institute (www.SCU.edu/civilsocietyinstitute/about/index.cfm)
* Silicon Valley Taxpayers' Association (www.SVTaxpayers.org)
ABOUT THE JEFFERSON CLUB:
The Jefferson Club was founded as a private, voluntary organization in 1997 to develop an ongoing practical dialog among free market thinkers and technology entrepreneurs and engineers. Its mission is to help forge a path to a free and productive society through unfettered commerce and technology, well regulated by private, contractual agreements. Toward that end, the Jefferson Club undertakes to:
* Schedule presentations by free market thinkers to technology entrepreneurs and engineers.
* Provide a forum for discussion of economic, political, and social issues particularly as they impinge on commerce in technology.
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