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Article: Congestion Pricing Is Coming
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 22, 2008
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Fred Hiatt is right ["The Bumpy Road to Congestion Relief," op-
ed, April 14]. Congestion pricing may be controversial to some
people, but it's inevitable. Using tolls simply to build more roads
is a costly way to end up with even more traffic and pollution.
Area officials rightly criticized a traffic study released last
month by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments'
Transportation Planning Board that failed to research the most
effective options for congestion pricing to improve public
transportation and significantly reduce congestion across the
region.
Done right, congestion pricing can boost the efficiency of our
existing roads, raise revenue to invest in ...