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Article: Congestion-pricing positives outweigh negatives
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2008
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Free freeways are a tradition that I love. Like anyone, I do not
want to begin paying for something I have always perceived as free.
However, I recently participated in research on behalf of the
Wasatch Front Regional Council that convinced me there will be
specific locations where the positive aspects of congestion pricing
will massively outweigh the negatives.
The research revealed that if we were to attempt to eliminate all
2030 freeway congestion on the Wasatch Front only by constructing
more and wider freeways, it would cost more than $16 billion in
today's dollars and push portions of I-15 to nine lanes each
direction in spite of alternative freeways, which would also end up
larger ...