OPINION: The Real ‘Cash Grab’ Isn’t Congestion Pricing — It’s Car Culture
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It pays to remember who profits as complainants line up on central business district tolling.
Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Congestion Pricing
What Congestion Pricing Accomplishes — and What it Doesn’t
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Obviously, there are positives, but there are also a lot of potential negatives. Let’s use the federal environmental-assessment process the way it’s meant to be used, and understand the negatives in order to combat them.
Congestion Pricing Update: New York’s Tolls will Have National Implications
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There are seven scenarios in New York's environmental assessment for congestion pricing. How this plays out is crucial to America's effort to rein in traffic and fund transit.
Study: A Road Pricing Scheme That Actually Cuts Driving
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Participants in a study who received cash for choosing modes of transport that are most beneficial to society ended up driving far less than study participants who did not get the reward — a finding that suggests that the U.S. could reduce many car trips if existing auto-centric incentives were altered.
Study: The Surprising Reasons Why Congestion Pricing Might Get Drivers Out of SUVs
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U.S. drivers are buying increasingly huge cars, in part because of all the time they spend stuck inside them at rush hour — but a new study suggests that if drivers had to pay congestion tolls, they’d be significantly more likely to pick smaller vehicles.
Interview: California Freeway Expansion Projects Induce Travel, and Underestimate Impacts of Additional Driving
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UC Davis scholars Susan Handy, Jamey Volker, and Amy Lee created a online Induced Travel Calculator tool to project how road expansion projects would increase driving