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After years of debate, New York state has adopted congestion pricing to deal with traffic problems in New York City. Starting in 2021, fees will be imposed on all vehicles entering a pricing zone that covers lower Manhattan, from 60th Street at the southern edge of Central Park to the southernmost tip of the island.
This approach has succeeded in cities including London, Singapore and Stockholm. For scholars like me who focus on urban issues, New York's decision is welcome news. Properly used, congestion pricing can make crowded cities safer, cleaner and easier for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians to navigate.
The details matter, including the size and timing of charges and the area that they cover. Congestion charges also raises equity issues, since rich people are best able to move closer to work or change their schedules to avoid the steepest costs.
Are congestion pricing plans the wave of the future in American cities?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 03 2019, @03:08AM
the secret sauce of new york is its fractal quality. a given place or time might seem mundane or merely crowded, but if you look closer you discern whole new levels of complexity. in the two block walk to our subway stop we can move through 70 countries worth of languages, customs, cuisines, and languages and all of them moving along in their own little bubbles. if you ever saw that movie "valerian and the city of ten thousand planets", that's sort of the effect.
i do also agree with schad upthread, though. nature is fractal also, and endlessly complex for those who care to look.
Washington DC delenda est.