Spending public money on a road amounts to a government subsidy of certain economic decisions over others. So why do many libertarians want government to build more roads? Alex Marshall wonders in Governing magazine. Via Planetizen.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.