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Peter Gordon blogs about a paper he presented at the Transportation Research Board conference in DC: My friends and I just presented this paper at the Transportation Research Board meetings in Washington DC. We tested the effects of tolling Los Angeles’ freeways in the peak hours (we tested 10 cents and 30 cents per [...] February 2nd, 2011 | Tags: congestion pricing, highways | Category: infrastructure, Transportation | 11 comments |  printable viewThe New York Daily News broke the story yesterday that New York lawmakers are once again trying to push congestion pricing through the state legislature, a task at which Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed in 2008 after meeting fierce resistance from outer borough and suburban drivers. Learning from his previous failed bid to charge drivers [...] January 27th, 2011 | Tags: congestion pricing, nyc | Category: Uncategorized | 8 comments | printable view1. Laneway housing, Vancouver vs. Toronto. 2. New York state lawmakers want to ban using a phone or listening to headphones while crossing streets. Unfortunately for us pedestrians, there are very few limited access, grade-separated walkways, so in essence this would criminalize listening to an iPod while walking. 3. An interesting article about transportation [...] January 26th, 2011 | Tags: Canada, congestion, congestion pricing, Singapore, Toronto, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments | printable viewIt’s already Sunday and I’ve exhausted my cache of unread blog posts from the week, so I went in search of new blogs to read and can across this really good one: Spatial Analysis. A post from December has this set of maps – private turnpikes in 18th century London and the congestion zone [...] January 16th, 2011 | Tags: congestion pricing, history, london | Category: Uncategorized | One comment | printable viewExpect a lot more of these… 1. Beijing tries to relieve congestion by…building a quarter-million parking new spaces and 125 miles of new downtown streets?! But don’t worry – bike sharing! 2. Seattle inches closer to a Shoupian on-street parking policy, and Austin ponders charging for on-street parking after dark and on Saturdays. My [...] January 7th, 2011 | Tags: Austin, China, congestion pricing, dc, density, london, nyc, parking, seattle, terrorism | Category: Uncategorized | One comment | printable viewThese seemed not quite fleshed-out enough for their own post, but too important to be buried along with other links. 1. San Francisco is considering a congestion charge plan that would either cover the whole city during rush hour, or just the northeastern quadrant (or possibly a mix of the two), for what looks [...] November 18th, 2010 | Tags: Bay Area, congestion pricing, gas tax | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment | printable viewLinks, links, links! 1. The Washington City Paper has a great expose on street food in DC called “Inside D.C.’s Food-Truck Wars” with the subtitle “How some of Washington’s most powerful interests are trying to curb the city’s most popular new cuisine.” 2. Mary Newsom at the Charlotte Observer thinks it’s a bad thing [...] September 25th, 2010 | Tags: buses, congestion pricing, food, private transit, public housing, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments | printable viewChris Bradford over at Austin Contrarian has been making some solid points in favor of congestion pricing. (here, here, here and here) Chris’s core argument in favor of congestion tolling is that: congestion pricing does more than relieve congestion. Congestion pricing tells us when a road needs more capacity. Additional capacity costs money, and [...] April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Chris Bradford, congestion, congestion pricing, price signals, Private Roads, taffic flow, traffic, Transportation | Category: Economics, infrastructure, privatization, sprawl, Transportation | 28 comments | printable view |
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