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Originally Posted by Drybrain
There is exactly one North American city that has impemented purposeful (i.e., not just road tolls or something) congestion pricing, New York City.
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NYC is interesting. It has a great endowment of infrastructure but most of that is very old and it struggles to build anything new (like the 2nd Ave subway or NJ tunnel), even when huge amounts of money is thrown at problems. So positive solutions are partly off the table and it probably looks more attractive as a lever.
It's very different from Halifax where basically it comes down to one premier who doesn't seem to like funding low-hanging-fruit transit projects like dedicated bus lanes.
I wonder about Japan as there are much larger and busier cities than Halifax there with tons of transit that have much more orderly traffic. There probably are expensive tolls as well as higher costs of vehicle ownership and cultural differences. I'm not even sure Tokyo's traffic is "worse" than Halifax. 95%+ of people get around by transit and then you see lots of orderly delivery vehicles and taxis moving at a reasonable pace with some private cars. It's interesting. I usually associated bigger, busier cities with more congestion and aggressive driving, but it's not true in Japan.
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