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Article: Not quite a freeway: advocates wonder if congestion pricing model could work for Chicago.(Best Practices)
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- The Chicago Reporter
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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For years, Nicholas Harrison loved darting in and out of traffic with his touring bike on his way to work as a French professor at Kings College London.
The cool morning breeze rustling his brown, grey-flecked hair, Harrison resembled a downhill skier expertly slaloming in between the cars crawling at snails' pace on the road alongside London's Thames River.
It's a different story now.
Far from stationary moguls, the cars now move briskly along, leaving Harrison little opportunity to do his customary bobbing and weaving. There are a lot more bikers with whom he also must contend.
"Congestion charging ...