It’s been one of the most controversial stories in New York City: A toll for nearly every driver who goes to midtown or downtown Manhattan during peak hours.
New York is the first North American city to have congestion pricing. Stockholm, Singapore and London have it.
Taylor Reich is a transit expert who says he constructed a model to see if it would work and what it would look like in D.C. It was published in Greater Greater Washington.
There is no guarantee we’ll ever see it in D.C. and if we did, it would be years away. But the concept is pretty simple: If you charge drivers for coming into the busiest parts of the District, it has the benefit of possibly reducing traffic and generating revenue that could be reinvested in public transit.
“The impact with driving is that your trip might cost some money if you’re going somewhere in downtown D.C. but congestion would be a lot less. You’d get there much faster and that’s because congestion pricing or road pricing is really the only way to reduce congestion in the long term. That’s the only way to do it. If you widen the highways, you’re just going to get more people to start driving,” Reich said.
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