Robert Poole, director of transportation at the Reason Institute, delivers an open letter to Los Angeles-area elected officials in the hopes of persuading them to adopt a federally-supported pricing system for the region's freeway network.
"We have more than a decade's worth of evidence that congestion pricing works, from California's two pioneering priced-lane projects-on I-15 in San Diego and on SR 91 in Orange County. Transportation planners from around the country have visited those projects and are now doing likewise-in Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and soon in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC."
"The San Francisco Bay Area's long-range transportation plan calls for a seamless network of HOT lanes throughout Silicon Valley and the East Bay. A recent study by Parsons Brinckerhoff and EcoNorthwest found that the projected system, if in place by 2018 under a rapid delivery option, would save travelers 75 million vehicle hours a year by 2030."
Thanks to James Brasuell
FULL STORY: Congestion Pricing: Robert Poole’s Open Letter to Elected Officials
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