Nationally recognized urban economist Randal O’Toole will be the lunch speaker for Houston Property Rights Association (HPRA) on
Friday, October 23. Mark your calendars.
The event will be in the ballroom of the Courtyard Restaurant, noon to 2 PM
1885 St. James Place, October 23, 2009.
We will charge $20 for this event, more than our usual $16.
Mr. O’Toole is an Oregon resident and a Senior Fellow with the Cato Institute best known for his criticisms of light rail and urban planning,
most notably the Smart Growth theory of planning, and his defense of automobile use. Lately he has been pointing out the foolishness of high speed rail.
[Some background on our speaker: Mr. O'Toole began his economics career as a conventional environmentalist but his work led him to re-examine his assumptions. Though he moved into the free market camp he has not lost his preference to use bicycles and mass transit rather than autos. He is also a rail fan who enjoys searching out and photographing trains and who helped restore one of the largest locomotives made in the US, the "City of Portland."]
http://www.cato.org/people/otoole.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_O’Toole
His blog: http://ti.org/antiplanner/
October 15th, 2009 at 7:05 am
It’s in the middle of the day so it may be tough to get out there but I’ll try!