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SF: This Car-Free Design on Market Street is a Game-Changer

By Roger Rudick | Jan 31, 2019 | No Comments

Come and see the vision for a car-free Market Street

If cities don't act decisively to prioritize bus and rail Photo: Oran Viriyincy/Flickr

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Congestion Pricing Can Cure Inequitable Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 30, 2019 | No Comments

The best way to ensure that congestion pricing doesn't hurt the poor is to make sure revenues from new tolls support better transit service — not just build more highways.

STREETSBLOG LA

The Benefits of Congestion Pricing

By Andy Bosselman | Jan 25, 2019 | No Comments

Metro CEO Phil Washington to present recommendations for a congestion pricing pilot next week

Since 2007, urban freight traffic (“vehicle miles traveled”) has not followed the upward trajectory of online sales. Graph: Joe Cortright

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Is E-Commerce Increasing Urban Truck Traffic? Don’t Be So Certain

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 13, 2016 | No Comments

The conventional wisdom holds that the boom in online retail is causing a big increase in truck traffic. But economist Joe Cortright at City Observatory is skeptical.

New York State DOT's plans to turn the Sacajaquada Expressway into a surface street don't go far enough to prioritize people instead of cars. Image via Buffalo Rising

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New York State DOT on Track to Botch Highway Removal in Buffalo

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 12, 2016 | No Comments

While New York DOT has agreed to turn the Scajaquada into a surface boulevard, local advocates warn that the agency's replacement design allocates too much space for cars and not enough for people.