Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Congestion Pricing

Lessons From London After 10 Years of the Congestion Charge

By Charles Komanoff | Feb 15, 2013 | No Comments

A Republican member of Congress told me last week that he recently was in London for the first time in a long while. “Traveling was so much better,” he said. “You can actually get around. That traffic-charging system they’ve got seems to be doing a lot of good.” London’s system — known formally as congestion […]

Confronted With Congestion Pricing, People Clamor for Transit, Gas Tax

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 24, 2013 | No Comments

Could a congestion pricing program work in the DC region? Maybe. But first, officials would need to get the public on board — no easy task. A report on the conclusions from five public forums, held in the region between October 2011 and January 2012, suggest that more and better transportation options need to be […]

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Congestion Pricing: Vital for Funding a Sustainable Transpo Future in SF

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 11, 2012 | 43 Comments

Take a shot at budgeting San Francisco’s future transportation revenue with the new online “Budget Czar” simulator from the SF County Transportation Authority, and it will quickly become clear: If residents want better transit and safer streets for walking and biking over the next 25 years, the city needs to collect new sources of transportation revenue […]

Mapped: Dramatic Changes on London Streets in the Congestion Pricing Era

By Tanya Snyder | May 2, 2012 | No Comments

Change in car use, 2001-2010. Source: ITO World For the last nine years, private motorists entering central London between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. have paid a fee (currently £10 or US$16.22) to drive on the city’s scarce street space. The revenue from the congestion charge is plowed into the city’s transit system, and as […]

What’s the Secret to World-Class Transit Systems? Congestion Pricing

By Noah Kazis | Apr 30, 2012 | No Comments

Top transportation officials from three global cities — London, Singapore and Stockholm — shared their experiences in expanding the use of transit at a panel at the Regional Plan Association’s annual conference last Friday. Eyeing those cities, it’s easy for New Yorkers to get jealous. “I was, in many ways, salivating,” said MTA chief Joe […]

Absent a Transportation Bill, DOT Can Innovate All On Its Own

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 10, 2011 | No Comments

As Deron Lovaas said this morning on NRDC’s Switchboard blog, “If recent events are any indicator, it might take Congress a while to agree on a policy that will put our underfunded, inefficient, oil-dependent transportation program on the right track.” Well now, that’s an understatement. Between the uncertainty of the supercommittee and the bicameral bickering […]

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