Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Congestion Pricing

Gordon “Blowsback” and Times Blowsout Rutten’s Pricing Misinformation Piece

By Damien Newton | Jun 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

Express Lanes on the I-91. Photo: Caltrans Poor Tim Rutten. Last week the Times’ columnist wrote an "opinion piece" that attacked congestion pricing and now everyone is attacking him. Some hack blogger pointed out that congestion pricing actually would make life easier for the fictitious poor people he used to argue his point. Now, a […]

Times Brings Back Pricing Misinformation Campaign

By Damien Newton | Jun 10, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo of 110: Wikipedia As Metro’s "Express Lanes" project starts to make headlines, you can expect to see more and more of these types of articles; misinformation dressed up as altruistic concern for others, appearing in local papers everywhere. For those of us who love the idea of congestion pricing on highways we’re left with […]

Metro Moves Forward with Confused “Congestion Pricing”

By Damien Newton | Jun 9, 2009 | 11 Comments

Yesterday, the Metro, aka LACMTA, announced the details of it’s HOT Lanes FAST Lanes Express Lanes proposal to take existing carpool lanes on the I-10 and I-110 freeways into and out of Downtown Los Angeles. While the new plan has been tweaked from the one outlined last August in one aspect, it is still missing […]

City Considering Congestion Parking for the Downtown

By Damien Newton | Apr 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo:Spacing Magazine/Flickr A lot has been said over some of the items on today’s City Council Transportation Committee hearing, most of it bad, but there is one agenda item we haven’t yet touched on that could have a huge impact on traffic and congestion in Los Angeles. Under the innocuous headlines "Funding Agreements for Congestion […]

L.A.’s “Congestion Pricing” Gaining National Attention

By Damien Newton | Mar 17, 2009 | 5 Comments

Peak hour congestion pricing: Good enough for Dubai, too radical for L.A. Two of the nation’s more prominent political bloggers have recently weighed in on what congestion pricing would mean to Los Angeles. Atrios, a writer for Media Matters for America, responds to criticism of congestion pricing at his personal blog by explaining that congestion […]

IBM: Let’s Build a Smarter Planet With Congestion Pricing!

By Damien Newton | Mar 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

IBM launched its "Build a Smarter Planet" campaign to highlight its role in using technology to solve many of the world’s problems. One of their most recent ads highlights and brags about the computer giant’s role in bringing congestion pricing, or as it terms it "smart tolling," to European cities. After spending a year watching […]

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