Abolishing Government Improves the Roads Ain’t the market grand? I’m just one person describing likely market solutions; imagine how efficient it’ll be with 280 million minds working on the issue. - Brad Edmunds, December 20, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]
How Would We Have Law, If Not For the State? The case of Acme Rent-a-Car was in the news recently in Connecticut. The enterprising company was monitoring its customers driving speed with a global positioning system, and adding $150 to their bill whenever they went over 79 miles per hour for over two minutes. - Gene Callahan, February 27, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]
Denationalizing the Roads Walter Block, a professor in New Jersey, has advocated an idea that is as hot as a firecracker: privitizing the roads.
Adopt a Highway Program A professional maintenance and marketing organization founded in 1990 to focus on facilitating Adopt a Highway/Sponsor a HighwaySM programs nationwide. "...mission is to create innovative outdoor recognition opportunities that promote the image of our customers while improving the quality of life in our communities."
New Jersey Lighthouse Society Private organization dedicated to the preservation of lighthouses, particularly in the New Jersey, Delaware Bay, and New York Harbor areas
Privatize Highway Projects [NCPA] "A number of states and several countries around the world are using private capital to design, build and operate highways, recovering the investment through tolls charged to users."
Sell the Roads - a Crazy Idea "I think it sounds crazy mostly because we're so used to things as they are. But if things as they are didn't sometimes suck and weird new ideas work, we'd all be Hailing our Queen of England, eh?" - Kaz Vorpal