Mayors Transportation Committee Meeting

I attended a Metropolitan Mayors Caucus Transportation Committee last week and was able to listen to a couple proposals that the Metropolitan Planning Council is working on. One of them was the concept of congestion pricing on toll roads.

The concept being that if you pay a higher toll during peak hours, people are less likely to drive for frivolous things during those peak times. I have noticed that on days where some businesses have the day off, traffic is slightly less nasty, and the flow is smoother. Presidents day is one that comes to mind. However in some of the examples given people in LA could pay $9 for a trip down a toll road!

Rather then write endlessly about this here is a link to the Metropolitan Planning Council list of articles about congestion pricing. Later on this week I am going to write about some local road projects and some rail projects worth a long range look.