As ODOT continues to push for big expansion on I-5 in a Columbia River Crossing expansion and in the I-5 Rose Quarter project, the wild success of decongestion pricing in New York City should give the Legislature renewed interest in the Portland area congestion relief pricing scheme that has been put on hiatus.
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| Oregonian today, NY Times yesterday |
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| The data, via Streetsblog |
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| via Bluesky |
On a smaller scale, this is the type of solution we should consider for our own Marion and Center Street Bridges.
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| Just tolling solves all our congestion problems! |
You may remember the chart made from the SRC's own projections, which showed very modest pricing yielded tremendous relief of congestion.
This may be the No. 1 story at the Legislature here this session: How much attention do they give to the real-world, real-time experiment in New York City? The data is there, how many are paying attention?
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