Congestion Pricing and New York City

Excellent article form The Atlantic Cities on congestion pricing an durban traffic. A quote:

> ...the fundamental law of highway congestion sets in. Discovered by Anthony Downs in 1962, and augmented by Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner in 2011, this law says that any rush-hour space created on urban roads will quickly be filled. The instinctual response is to up the treatment dosage, though all that really does is require more treatment.
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> There are alternative therapies, such as transit improvements, but these too mask the underlying cause of the disease: an insatiable demand for free roads. In that sense, the only true cure for city traffic is to reduce the demand through pricing. And since traffic is non-linear — meaning one less car opens up more than one space — a fee need only nudge a few drivers onto mass transit or off-hour trips to turn a terminal case of congestion into a healthy road.
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> "We've been fed this stream of cures that go down easy for drivers: we're going to improve transit, we're going to have a bike plan. All these things that don't require any real change on driver's behavior," says Manville. "But if the problem really is congestion, what should have happened a long time ago is the tough-talking doctor says: this isn't going to go down easy — tolls — but it's going to cure the disease."

The link:

http://t.co/Pkwod4YCuG
--
Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
http://gridlogisticsinc.com
http://www.rickrise.com








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