Filed under: Cars and Transportation, Local, Travel and Vacation
In the first major US city to ban plastic bags, the use city funds for bottled water, and run its city trucks on brown grease — you might think a congestion fee plan would pass with flying colors. But there’s apparently a limit to what even the greenest metropolises are willing to do in the US. SF’s once popular congestion pricing plan — modeled after London’s Congestion Zone — is starting to run into road blocks as drivers and business owners line up against the $6 charge to enter the city.
Unsurprisingly, worries about losing money in downtown shopping districts is winning out over the prospect of having less traffic congestion. Not to mention, many citizens take offense to the idea of paying $6 a day to just drive through their city. Judging from recent events in London, congestion pricing plans on both sides of the Atlantic may be an endangered species. After studies showed that London’s experiment with congestion tolls had lackluster results, other cities on the fence — from New York to Manchester — are jumping off the bandwagon. Will SF be the next?
[via Earth2Tech]
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