Starting this spring, motorists will pay a $2 toll to drive Oregon’s historical Columbia River Gorge Highway. Instead of widening the road, ODOT will use pricing to limit demand This shows Oregon can quickly implement
Oregon crosses the road-pricing Rubicon Read Post »
Louisville’s I-65 bridges: A huge under-used roadway and hundreds of millions in debt for their kids—who will also have to cope with a climate crisis. Their financial plan kicked the can down the road, saddling
Louisville’s financial disaster: Deep in debt for road capacity that will never be used Read Post »
Road pricing is inherently fairer to the poor because it speeds up buses As economists, we’re keen on the idea of road pricing. The reason we have congestion and delay is because we charge a
Why road pricing is inherently equitable: Faster buses Read Post »
Streetsblogger extraordinaire Angie Schmidt is not happy with Uber and Lyft. They’re not really the ones to blame. Are Uber and Lyft to blame for growing urban transportation problems? Streetsblog’s Angie Schmit makes a strong
Angie’s List: The problem isn’t ride hailing, it’s the lack of road pricing Read Post »
Data shows Portland’s scooter experiment worked. Maybe it’s time to critically appraise the failed 110 year experiment with cars. Starting in July, Portland, Oregon began allowing fleets of e-scooters, as an experiment, to see how
Scooter Lessons: Success, but a stark double standard Read Post »
Don’t decry congestion pricing as inequitable until after you fix, or at least acknowledge, these ten other things that are even more inequitable about the way we pay for transportation. There’s a growing interest in
Ten things more inequitable than road pricing Read Post »
