“on a weekday, the average car driven into Manhattan south of 60th Street causes a total of 3.26 hours of delays to everybody else. (At weekends, the equivalent number is just over 2 hours.) No one car is likely to suffer excess delays of more than a few seconds, of course, but if you add up all those seconds for the thousands of affected cars and trucks, it comes to a significant amount of time.”
I had to add to this thread because I found this quote in what appears to be a good analysis of Manhattan’s transportation externalities and a proposal that includes congestion pricing.
If this is accurate, does it change your opinion on the need for congestion pricing? How much?
Would congestion pricing significantly reduce amount of traffic? I quite doubt it.
People are willing to stay extremely long in the traffic, a few extra dollars of congestion charge on top of that won’t make much of a difference, and cost of operating the scheme would be enormous.
Unless the congestion charge is really extremely high, like $100 a day, that would probably work well enough to reduce traffic, but it’s unlikely they’ll ever do that.
“on a weekday, the average car driven into Manhattan south of 60th Street causes a total of 3.26 hours of delays to everybody else. (At weekends, the equivalent number is just over 2 hours.) No one car is likely to suffer excess delays of more than a few seconds, of course, but if you add up all those seconds for the thousands of affected cars and trucks, it comes to a significant amount of time.”
I had to add to this thread because I found this quote in what appears to be a good analysis of Manhattan’s transportation externalities and a proposal that includes congestion pricing.
If this is accurate, does it change your opinion on the need for congestion pricing? How much?
Would congestion pricing significantly reduce amount of traffic? I quite doubt it. People are willing to stay extremely long in the traffic, a few extra dollars of congestion charge on top of that won’t make much of a difference, and cost of operating the scheme would be enormous.
Unless the congestion charge is really extremely high, like $100 a day, that would probably work well enough to reduce traffic, but it’s unlikely they’ll ever do that.