Submitted by Dr. David C. Lachman, Dec 22, 2006 15:33

DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH's The Road Not Taken suggests governmental intervention rather than allowing the free market to work. Thriving cities by their very nature are crowded, with clogged streets. This has been true since the beginning of recorded history. Governmental attempts to do something about congestion, like that in London, simply drive traffic, people and businesses out of the central zone to areas not so regulated. When the free market is allowed to work, people (not government) decide when enough is enough and take their own measures to do something about it. Governmental imposition of tolls and regulations stiffles both business and freedom. Taken as a whole The Road Not Taken is a very bad idea, is anti-free market and should be abandoned entirely.

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