[Carfreeliving] Road Pricing and Parking in California

[Andrew Sullivan]

Even if there's no hope for the suburbs, congestion charging could at 
least make SF transportation more efficient.  Gotta start somewhere.

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On Jun 6, 2005, at 7:28, A P Thornley wrote:

> Gee, Dr. Shoup is hot -- the Chronicle gave him an Open Forum slot 
> last week, and now the Economist, hot cha. Still, this is a pretty 
> pessimistic piece, no hope for the suburbs (guess I've heard that 
> somewhere before) . . .
>
>
>         --Andy--
>
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> At 7:47 PM -0700 6/5/05, Bert Hill wrote:
>> The best part of this article is near the end, where it references 
>> Dr. Shoup and compares parking/population ratios in cities: America's 
>> great headacheJun 2nd 2005 | LOS ANGELES
>>  >From The Economist print edition
>>
>> California shows that road pricing looks the most promising way to 
>> stop congestion. But suburban Americans have the traffic they deserve
>> WHAT is the price of America's love affair with the car? According to 
>> a recent "urban mobility study" from the Texas Transportation 
>> Institute, it adds up to $63.1 billion a year (plus another $1.7 
>> billion if the latest petrol prices are included) in wasted time and 
>> fuel. Most drivers would add an emotional cost in frayed nerves. 
>> After all, who wants to spend 44% of their daily commute-the figure 
>> for the regions around Los Angeles and Washington, DC-in a crawl?Most 
>> sufferers have no choice. As cities sprawl first into suburbs and 
>> then into car-dependent "exurbs", the daily commute becomes an ever 
>> more painful fact of life. According to the Census Bureau, Americans 
>> spend more than 100 hours a year commuting to work; and the annual 
>> delay for the typical rush-hour traveller in metropolitan areas of 
>> more than 3m has grown, since 1982, from 16 hours to 47.What, if 
>> anything, can be done about it? For an answer, look at California, 
>> home to 23m licensed drivers and 33m vehicles, and where "you are 
>> what you drive": Arnold Schwarzenegger has gas-guzzling Hummers, 
>> while immigrant Mexican gardeners have to make do with decrepit 
>> Chevrolet pick-ups. California's network of suburbs and "edge cities" 
>> has become the model for much of the growth around the rest of the 
>> country.
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