Comments on: Feds Helping Metro Move to HOT Lanes. http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/04/24/feds-helping-metro-move-to-hot-lanes/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:23:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: PCC http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/04/24/feds-helping-metro-move-to-hot-lanes/comment-page-1/#comment-777 PCC Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:56:21 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/04/24/feds-helping-metro-move-to-hot-lanes/#comment-777 ubray, "congestion pricing" refers to any scheme which charges different prices depending on congestion conditions. "Cordon pricing" is a variant thereof which, as you say, "cordons off" an area in which this price is levied; more typically, though, the price is set along a single corridor instead of within a cordon. ubray, "congestion pricing" refers to any scheme which charges different prices depending on congestion conditions. "Cordon pricing" is a variant thereof which, as you say, "cordons off" an area in which this price is levied; more typically, though, the price is set along a single corridor instead of within a cordon.

]]> By: ubrayj02 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/04/24/feds-helping-metro-move-to-hot-lanes/comment-page-1/#comment-757 ubrayj02 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:16:24 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/04/24/feds-helping-metro-move-to-hot-lanes/#comment-757 I am still not clear why "congestion pricing" is being used to describe a toll-road system? Congestion pricing, I thought, is a fee for access to an area that has been cordoned-off. I guess the highway is the cordoned-off area in this "congestion pricing" scheme - but it seems like verbal buggery to me. This ought to be called "a toll road scheme" or a "highway user fee", que no? I think that user fees for highway use are approriate (they work for buses and trains), I'm just worried we're going to get some private conglomerate or international corporation to sweep in and get to lease our highways for 99 years to manage this toll road scheme. I am still not clear why "congestion pricing" is being used to describe a toll-road system?

Congestion pricing, I thought, is a fee for access to an area that has been cordoned-off. I guess the highway is the cordoned-off area in this "congestion pricing" scheme - but it seems like verbal buggery to me.

This ought to be called "a toll road scheme" or a "highway user fee", que no?

I think that user fees for highway use are approriate (they work for buses and trains), I'm just worried we're going to get some private conglomerate or international corporation to sweep in and get to lease our highways for 99 years to manage this toll road scheme.

]]> By: jeremy http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/04/24/feds-helping-metro-move-to-hot-lanes/comment-page-1/#comment-740 jeremy Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:20:49 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/2008/04/24/feds-helping-metro-move-to-hot-lanes/#comment-740 its jeremy!, not jeremy 1 :) its jeremy!, not jeremy 1

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