Tip-Toeing Towards Tolls
29 September 2006 - 9:00am
A recent editorial encourages the Washington State legislature to take the first step towards highway congestion pricing.
"Tolling has the power to do two things: It can pay for a project and it can defeat traffic congestion. The first is an idea that people generally accept...Using tolls to beat congestion is a newer idea."
While the recent endorsement of the highway tolling proposal by the Washington State Transportation Commission does not explicitly call for congestion pricing, the move is being acknowledged as a good first step.
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For whom the highways toll
Source:
The Seattle Times, September 25, 2006
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