Seattle Could Be the First U.S. City to Institute Congestion Pricing
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Mayor Jenny Durkan says she wants to have a true central city congestion pricing system in place by 2021.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Congestion Pricing
Why Peak Period Road Pricing Is Fair
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Peak hour car commuters in Portland have incomes almost double those who travel by transit, bike, and foot.
Sober Non-Partisan Analysis: America Wastes a Ton of Money on Highways
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A good deal of the $46 billion the federal government pours into highway spending each year is going to waste, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report [PDF]. The conclusion won’t surprise regular Streetsblog readers, but it’s the source that’s interesting. The CBO is not an advocacy group or an ideologically-minded think tank. It’s a non-partisan budget watchdog charged […]
Making Transit Better Isn’t Enough. Driving Needs to Be Worse.
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So transit ridership is up. Everybody knows that. It’s at its highest point since 1956. Right? Well, ridership per capita is still less than half its 1956 point. And by 1956, transit ridership was already at a 40-year low. But with transit growing faster than car travel, at a rate that outpaces population growth, there […]
If Drivers Won’t Pay to Bypass Congestion, Why Should Taxpayers?
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A pilot project to bring high occupancy/toll lanes to State Route 167 in metro Seattle has grossly deviated from projections, raising questions about the value of added road capacity. The 10 miles of priced lanes — the only “HOT” lanes in the Pacific Northwest — were converted from HOV lanes in 2008 and cost $18 […]
With Less Driving, Can We Tone Down the Hysteria About Congestion?
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There’s so much to unpack in the landmark report released by U.S. PIRG and the Frontier Group earlier this week on transportation trends. Tuesday, we focused on the disparity between government transportation forecasts and recent realities. We also took a look at a few reasons to believe that the millennial generation – those aged 13 […]