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Celebrating the Bush administration’s successful domestic policies, vol. 1: Less Traffic

From “Study: Traffic costs billions of hours a year”, CNN.com, September 7, 2004, which examines the general trend of increasing traffic congestion in the nation’s largest urban areas, but which contains the following caveat:

Traffic in some cities has actually gotten better — but that’s because their economies have done poorly.
“In a lot of the places in the past we’ve seen success in cities suffering job declines — Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland,” Pisarski said. “Unemployment is a great solution.”

(With thanks to Jeff.)

One reply on “Celebrating the Bush administration’s successful domestic policies, vol. 1: Less Traffic”

There’s an interesting article about London’s traffic congestion charge at the IRPP website (PDF):
http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb04/Cappe.pdf
“From London, Marni Cappe considers the remarkable success story of reducing congestion in central London by charging cars to drive in it.Traffic volumes and delays have been reduced, as has time spent in traffic. As many as 50,000 fewer cars are coming into central London, with most former car commuters switching to public transit or car pooling. Cost benefits indicate about C$400 million saved a year from reduced congestion…”

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