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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (581183)8/16/2010 11:53:54 AM
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As of July 1, the toll during commute hours rose from $4.00 to $6.00. For carpoolers, it rose to $2.50 from, well, nothing. The idea is called congestion pricing: local transit officials are betting they can reduce traffic by making it more expensive to drive during the most crowded times of day.

The data is still coming in, but so far the plan seems to be working. On the Bay Bridge, rush hour delays have been nearly cut in half, and there have been some other interesting results as well. For example, 12,000 fewer cars drove through the carpool lanes last month.

So where did all those commuters go? KALW’s Casey Miner took to the freeway to try and find out.

You raised the price by 50%, and managed to move 400 cars a day out of the HOV lanes. Not exactly a resounding succses story.
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