21-09-2022, 10:16 AM
By DANIELLE MUOIO DUNN
09/03/2022 07:00 AM EDT
NEW YORK — Some of the world’s biggest cities keep turning to a simple tool to cut traffic, reduce emissions and raise much-needed revenue: Tolls.
From Stockholm to Singapore, taxing urban drivers is en vogue — and working. Parochial politics have prevented cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles from instituting so-called congestion pricing. Now, those same concerns are vexing its implementation in the core of the nation’s biggest city.
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But congestion pricing works, and if New York wants to lead the way on this side of the Atlantic, it will need to deal with the pushback, according to an expert with London’s public transit authority, which implemented a similar program in 2003.
Much much more at: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/03...g-00054379
09/03/2022 07:00 AM EDT
NEW YORK — Some of the world’s biggest cities keep turning to a simple tool to cut traffic, reduce emissions and raise much-needed revenue: Tolls.
From Stockholm to Singapore, taxing urban drivers is en vogue — and working. Parochial politics have prevented cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles from instituting so-called congestion pricing. Now, those same concerns are vexing its implementation in the core of the nation’s biggest city.
......
But congestion pricing works, and if New York wants to lead the way on this side of the Atlantic, it will need to deal with the pushback, according to an expert with London’s public transit authority, which implemented a similar program in 2003.
Much much more at: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/03...g-00054379