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Article: Roadkill.(congestion pricing)(Cover story)
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- Earth Island Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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In 1996, just three days after he received the Nobel Prize in Economics, William Vickrey--the father of congestion pricing--was driving to a conference at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, MA. Thirty miles north of New York City, he suffered a heart attack and died. A passing motorist found the 82-year-old professor slumped behind the wheel of his car on the Hutchison River Parkway, part of the city's 416 miles of roads that connect it to the suburbs and outlying regions. "The somewhat dark joke--the black joke that I tell--is when he realized that they had taken the tolls off the Hutchison River Parkway, he immediately had this heart attack," says Jeffrey ...
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