A Wide, Wide Road

Have you ever measured your street?

I think this image says a lot about how much we spend on infrastructure, and also how artificially and unreasonably the land-use regime limits density and efficient use of land. (Maybe we should call it the land-disuse regime.)

This image is of an ordinary suburban street in the Reston/Herndon area, serving cul-de-sacs and subdivisions. It’s a little bit…