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Michael McLean's avatar

I can’t wait to toll the Kennedy, Ike, and Dan Ryan in Chicago!

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Sam Deutsch's avatar

I was going to say, the urban layout of Chicago means that tolling the highways directly would probably be easier to implement than full congestion pricing. The same goes for Boston - increasing and equalizing the tolls for bridges and arterials/highways would likely be sufficient.

However, I do think that for the less highway-centric downtowns of SF and DC, an NYC-style congestion relief zone makes more sense.

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Buay's avatar

incredible post, thank you!

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tvdp's avatar

Does increased MTA ridership result in the positive externality of greater farebox recovery?

How much do we save from faster busses?

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Two Wheels Good's avatar

Do you have any insight into "Retail sales are up $900M " ? Is that similar in proportion to transit ridership or foot traffic ? Is this retail sales increase corroborated by increased sales tax receipts ?

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Sam Deutsch's avatar

The data is from Affinity, a credit card sales data aggregator. However, I have not seen data on a pre-congestion pricing baseline that would be used to capture the % impact. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/27/memo-to-the-president-manhattan-economy-improving-thanks-to-congestion-pricing

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Larry's avatar

What about pedestrian safety? Are cars driving faster now that there's less congestion?

I know it sounds funny, but I sometimes felt safer biking in NYC when the cars were in a gridlock rather than speeding past.

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