Libertarian Party of Pittsburgh

Study: Pennsylvania Turnpike Is Among Least Cost-Efficient Toll Roads in U.S.

Los Angeles (April 10, 2008) - The Pennsylvania Turnpike is one of the country's least cost-efficient toll roads, spending a whopping 62.4 percent of its toll revenues on operating and maintenance costs. Of 35 toll roads studied, only the Massachusetts and West Virginia turnpikes spend a higher percentage of their toll revenues on operating costs, according to a new report by the Reason Foundation, a free market think tank that has advised the last four presidential administration on transportat...

Libertarians Say “No!” to Drink Tax Bailout of Inefficient Government Transportation

Private businesses and citizens are scrambling to protect their pocket books as local politicians seek ways of dodging the real problems of public transit (e.g. government supplied transportation) -- an inefficient and bloated socialist model -- by using a drink tax to dump the problem on the backs of local citizens who deserve better. Libertarians do not support dumping the cost of one persons' needs on the backs of others. It also does not support pitting citizen against citizen in fights ...