OPINION: Congestion Pricing Isn't A Cash Grab; It's A Repayment of Debt
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It pays to remember who profits as complainants line up on central business district tolling.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Gas Prices
Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco
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Smoking, once a celebrated totem of American culture, is increasingly an ostracized habit of the marginal few. Getting there, though, took deliberate vision, coordinated efforts, and persistent policy trial and error over decades — and those efforts reveal a partial roadmap for breaking our country’s similarly dangerous addiction to cars.
Opinion: Ending Our Oil Addiction Is a Moral Imperative for Inflation and the Climate
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The amount we drive is a matter of public policy, shaped by land use and transportation policies that underinvest in transit and make walking and biking ever more dangerous. We can flip that starting now.
KOMANOFF: High Gas Prices Are Reducing Driving!
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Pricing has power. Changes in the prices of goods and services affect demand for those items. And that's happening with gasoline right now, despite what Streetsblog says!
THE BRAKE: Why Americans Don’t Always Drive Less When Gas Prices Soar
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Even with high gas prices, many Americans aren't driving any less because so many of their communities are so car-dependent. How do you fix that? Listen to our podcast.
Advocates Decry Proposed ‘Gas Tax Holiday’ — And Offer Alternatives to Ease Pain at the Pump
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As President Biden urges Congress to give drivers a gas tax "holiday" that experts say won't even significantly ease pain at the pump, advocates are urging him to give Americans emergency relief from car dependency instead.