Liisa Ecola
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“If/Then”: A Review of the Broadway-Bound Musical About City Planning
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What rhymes with “waterfront redevelopment plan”? I wondered that after recently reading that the storyline of an upcoming musical whose plot revolves around a 40-ish city planner moving to New York. Clearly a musical needs a larger audience than 40-something women with city planning degrees, but as the bulls-eye of their target demographic, I felt […]
Getting Over the Privacy Hurdle to Mileage-Based Road Fees
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Liisa Ecola is a senior project associate at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution. It’s time to explore mileage-based user fees. For nearly a century, Americans have largely paid for roads through gas taxes – taxes which governments can’t or won’t raise. Even if they could, more and more cars no longer run […]