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Why We Don’t Use Congestion Pricing
Here’s an interesting piece on the reasons we don’t see congestion pricing in use. Here are the top-line bullets: No One Cares (congestion is not so bad that we can’t live with it) Equity Considerations (congestion pricing is regressive) Congestion Pricing Suffers from a Mismatch Between Economic and Political Efficiency (economists don’t call the political…
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Defining the Walk for Walking Your Talk
Following up on our earlier discussion on whether Al Gore is walking is talk, Portland Transport contributor Rick Browning recently sent this letter to the editor of the NY Times questioning whether it’s about how you get there or how far there is… To the Editor, Environmental activist Bill McKibben’s custom home in rural Ripton,…
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How Far Will You Walk to Transit?
Perhaps further than you thought. A new study suggests that the distance people will walk to transit (generally assumed to be 1/4 mile or so) may be less a function of distance than of the obstacles they find along the way. Major findings: Pedestrians walk farther to access light rail stations than commonly assumed, with…