Ben Wear and a colleague have run another experiment comparing SH 130 to I-35.
The trip around Austin on SH 130 was 22 minutes faster than the trip straight through town on I-35. This even though I-35 was not particularly congested during their experiment.
Wear averaged 70 mph on SH 130; his colleague, 50 mph. (I-35 was nine minutes faster in the first experiment , but this was before SH 130 had been linked to I-35 via a limited-access...
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I agree with Ryan Avent that this WSJ piece makes a bizarre argument against congestion pricing: By requiring car drivers to pay a fee to drive in a city at peak hours, congestion pricing...
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I agree with Ryan Avent that this WSJ piece makes a bizarre argument against congestion pricing: By requiring car drivers to pay a fee to drive in a city at peak hours, congestion pricing...
Math with M1EK, Lesson 1
It's come up again, this time on the twitter. The old road-warrior chestnut argument that it doesn't matter if urbanites pay a much higher percentage of their driving costs than do...
$160 per trip
That's the social cost that Charles Kamonoff, an NYC environmental/transportation analysist, believes each driver who enters Manhattan's central business district imposes on other...
$160 per trip
That's the social cost that Charles Kamonoff, an NYC environmental/transportation analysist, believes each driver who enters Manhattan's central business district imposes on other drivers....
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