Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Congestion Pricing

Reducing driving and converting diesel engines to electric ones could slash a billion metric tons of C02 emissions.

Less Driving, More Electrics Will Reduce Emissions

By Aaron Short | Oct 15, 2019 | No Comments

People need to live and work radically differently if the United States can even hope to get halfway towards becoming carbon neutral by 2050, but a new paper released last month says the most important change would come in how we get around.

Can the driverless cars of the future be bent into an opportunity to prioritize people? NACTO hopes so. Image: IPAM, UCLA

City Officials Seek To Mold the Future of Driverless Cars

By Aaron Short | Sep 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

Using autonomous vehicles as a chance to shape streets for people.

Los Angeles has the worst congestion in the country with drivers sitting in traffic an average of 119 hours in 2017.

Traffic Study Comes Under Fire for Being Too ‘Pro-Car’

By Aaron Short | Sep 9, 2019 | 9 Comments

A landmark report that analyzes traffic congestion and its costs is coming under fire from transportation experts who say its methodology and findings are biased toward cars. The Urban Mobility Report “is a throwback to an earlier age” that “reflects an outdated transport planning paradigm which assumed that ‘transportation’ means automobile travel and ‘transportation problem’ […]

Cyclists in London made an average of 2.5 million trips a day in 2018, up 5 percent from the previous year.

Tally Ho! London Breaks its Cycling Record

By Aaron Short | Jul 8, 2019 | 7 Comments

London's painstaking network of new bike lanes, refurbished signals at intersections, and traffic congestion policies are paying off with record ridership.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot may consider congestion pricing to raise revenue for Chicago's transportation needs.

Chicago Contemplates Congestion Pricing

By Aaron Short | Jul 1, 2019 | 7 Comments

Activists are urging the city's new mayor, Lori Lightfoot, to adopt surcharges to raise revenue for transit.

Traffic through the Sepulveda Pass in Southern California became worse after a highway widening project. Photo:

A Great Big Freeway — Thanks to Induced Demand

By Aaron Short | May 8, 2019 | 18 Comments

Los Angeles is getting what it paid for when it widened 10 miles of its most infamous freeways — another lane of traffic.

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