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Pay as You Slow
Road Pricing to Reduce Traffic Congestion
Sir, we recommend that you urge Congress to authorize a program that would encourage state and municipal authorities to implement road-pricing mechanisms by removing a variety of legal obstacles to converting high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes into high-occupancy/toll (HOT) lanes and, more generally, by helping pay start-up costs of road-pricing initiatives. Congestion pricing increasingly is being recognized as the only really effective way to alleviate the problem of ever-worsening traffic gridlock in the nation’s cities, and its time for implementation has arrived with recent developments in electronic payment technology.
The Case for Congestion ...
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