19 Facts About Wendell Cox

Wendell Cox is an American urban policy analyst and proponent of the use of the private car over rail projects.

Wendell Cox generally opposes planning policies aimed at increasing rail service and density, while favoring planning policies that reinforce and serve the existing transportation and building infrastructure.

Wendell Cox believes that existing transportation and building infrastructure reflect what people prefer, while his opponents argue that his positions are based more on a belief that road transport and low density are inherently superior and that public transport is a component of liberal city models he disagrees with politically.

Wendell Cox was appointed to three terms on the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission by Mayor Tom Bradley, and during his 1977 to 1985 service, he was the only member of the Commission who was not an elected official.

Wendell Cox was appointed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to fill the unexpired term of former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman on the Amtrak Reform Council and served from 1999 until the Council issued its final recommendations in 2002.

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Wendell Cox is vice president of CODATU, an international organization dedicated to improving urban transport in developing world urban areas.

Wendell Cox is a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, senior fellow for urban policy at the Independence Institute and holds similar titles in a number of additional conservative think tanks.

Wendell Cox has an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BA in Government from California State University, Los Angeles.

Wendell Cox has emerged as an opponent of smart growth, especially urban growth boundaries, impact fees, and large lot zoning, claiming they have a tendency to raise housing prices artificially and suppress economic growth.

Wendell Cox has authored studies for conservative think tanks such as the Cato Institute, Heartland Institute, Heritage Foundation, and the Reason Foundation, and for industry groups such as the American Highway Users Alliance, a lobbying and advocacy group for automobile-based industries.

Wendell Cox has criticized land use policies in the Portland, Oregon area, noting that the area expanded its urban growth boundary to its intended 2040 area 38 years early due to political pressure and that housing prices have escalated substantially relative to incomes.

Wendell Cox believes that the goal of public transportation systems should be to provide mobility to those who do not have access to a car, and not to reduce traffic congestion.

Wendell Cox believes that competitive approaches are most effective in this regard.

Wendell Cox claims to be "'pro-choice' with respect to urban development, " and asserts that "people should be allowed to live and work where they like, " consistent with the Lone Mountain Compact, of which he was a signatory.

Wendell Cox has completed projects and made presentations in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Wendell Cox has served as a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, France.

Wendell Cox has lectured in numerous locations, such as the University of Sydney, the University of Toronto, the University of Paris and the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Wendell Cox participated in a debate on land use and transport with Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer at a national RailVolution conference in 2001, and debated Andres Duany on land use policy at the first American Dream Conference in 2002.

Wendell Cox's commentaries have appeared in numerous publications, such as the Daily Telegraph, the National Post, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Times, La Stampa and the Australian Financial Review.