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Tag: congestion pricing
Roadbuilding
Variable pricing: A case study
Using different tolls for different times of days and different vehicles is an increasingly common consideration for agencies facing gridlock or suffocating congestion on a regular basis.
April 3, 2013
Roadbuilding
Congestion pricing thins carpoolers on SF Bay Bridge
Ironically, vehicles carrying a lot of people are taken off the road by congestion pricing more than vehicles with just a driver. At least in San Francisco. Peak period tolls on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge went up  in summer of 2012.  Carpoolers — who until then had not paid for peak hours travel — […]
March 12, 2013
Roadbuilding
L.A.’s new 14 miles of tolls won’t solve infrastructure problem
The Los Angeles Times reports that 14 miles of new tolled “HOT lanes” (high-occupancy travel lanes) have opened opened on the San Bernardino Freeway as part of a trial program to see if letting drivers traveling alone will pay to use the express lanes and help relieve road congestion. This is second project of its […]
February 28, 2013
Roadbuilding
“Congestion pricing” now at work on L.A. jamways
If they can make it here they’ll make it anywhere, its up to you L.A. L.A. Los Angeles County’s has opened 14 miles of express lanes on the San Bernardino Freeway. Back in November it was the city’s Harbor Freeway that was set up with this system. The idea of course is to ease congestion. […]
February 25, 2013
Roadbuilding
Financial District
Varying tolls to control congestion works. Sort of. Sometimes.
March 20, 2012
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