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Yes! Tax the people! We need more bike lanes!

Streetcars don't just run at grade, they usually run on shared ROW with lots of pedestrian crossings. Since they're usually designed to augment walking. Light rail is designed more as mass transit where you actually have a lot of capacity and throughput and can move people longer distances in a reasonably fast amount of time. However it's lower throughput and cheaper than heavy rail

Sorry I think DC is the second best outside of NYC then the L .

The company I work for just recently won several contracts with Hitachi to build these! I couldn’t be more excited, and I really hope I get placed on the project. Welding subways cars would be so cool for a train dork like me lol

Cities need to implement congestion pricing because we need to have clean air and prevent pollution and prevent climate reduce traffic like parts of world London, Stockholm, Milan, Gothenburg, and in the central business district of Manhattan in New York City have congestion pricing.

They need 1. Toilets- ppl just do their business anywhere 2. Deodorizers 3. Robotic cops- be better than chair potatoes renta cops now

Connecting the Arenas needs to become a priority, even just a bus line for tram from Dodger stadium would help so much

The Broad St cars are Kawasakis. They'll be good for another 10 years. They are 15 yrs older that the El cars

I'm interested to see how other cities will implement congestion pricing. Directing money to transit and efficient modes would be real game changer. I think its important to adopt plans for transit at the same time that congestion pricing is implemented. In that way there's a clear guide as money accumulates but also there sustainable funding that can be leveraged for larger sums of money.

Great video but Left out Chicago, Philly and Boston to name a few

I'm a little lost... can someone pls explain?

Fingers crossed for congestion pricing sometime soon in Chicago.

Look up nandert, he has lots of information on future of LA transit

It no doubt is a mixed bag for Midwest US cities on transit and walkability.

Should be implemented in the LAX loop. I don't think anywhere else in Los Angeles is ready for it, yet. (A few years ago I would have said Santa Monica or DTLA, but their business districts are hollowed out post-covid and frankly the cons outweigh the pros for now)

Vancouver could definitely use congestion pricing in the downtown. There may need to be some exemptions for folks passing through from Kitsilano over the Lionsgate to get to the North Shore, but that would be a huge boon to Translink's fiscal cliff that's approaching, plus help fund Skytrain to UBC and to the North Shore.

As a New Yorker: congestion pricing has been an absolute godsend for quality of life. However, I very much doubt any other city will be able to get the necessary federal approval for congestion pricing in the next 4 years.

Southwest cheif?

New York?

The horns are so funny when you’re trying to cross as a pedestrian

I like how these make the foamers seethe. Oh no a Transit agency doing more for the environment by getting cars off the road over wasting billions failing to go anywhere.

Boston is one city that could stand to benefit from congestion pricing. The traffic jams and tailbacks on its main throughway are phenomenal!

Denver should get some congestion pricing as well.

I hope Metra electrify all their rolling stock,( I mean they don’t some of them but still they have a long way to go)

Singapore started congestion pricing in 1975. The first MRT line didnt open until 1987. And everything was fine. So I dont wanna hear a damn thing about "we dont have enough transit"

So. Many. Level. Crossings...

the northest corridoir between washington to boston has a ridership total of 825,000

Don't forget! City dwellers also have to put up with all the space between buildings being paved with concrete for cars to drive on rather than having grass and trees.

Congestion pricing should be super widespread!!

I wonder if this account gets paid for the propaganda or if it's a brainwashed dude doing it for free

In Manhattan, street space use pricing has the obvious benefits, but also some less obvious ones. For example, the drivers who pay the charge get a faster and more convenient trip than they could possibly get for free, and those who drive for a living can earn a lot more in the time saved than they're spending on the charges. It seems most of the lasting opposition is coming from people who are deterred from driving by the price. Also, I'd support some form of pricing of street space wherever streets are congested, even in cities that don't have great mass transit and cycling infrastructure today. What pricing would do there is eliminate low-value trips (such as trips through the city center that could have gone around instead) to speed up the higher value ones. Ideally, the money raised from pricing could be used to make driving less of a necessity in those cities; building a great cycling infrastructure network would be a good place to start because it can be done at relatively low cost.

could definitely see this happening in places like boston, sfo, chicago, dc or Los Angeles in a couple of decades

People don't want to pay for something that's already been free, and I think there's a lot of people who would rather sit in traffic than take the dirty American transit or pay to use the road.

Quick note about Toronto as someone who lives there. Transit just isn't good enough quite yet to effectively implement congestion pricing. If you're anywhere outside the downtown area transit isn't the greatest. Especially in the Ontario region as a whole. GO transit is still pretty limited in terms of areas serviced and the rail network outside of GO is just over-priced freight track shared VIA which also is subject to constant delays, is slow, and not frequent enough to make people think "The train would be a good idea". millions use TTC and GO already which is nearly at capacity but there are still many more outside of those service areas that do need to go downtown. Unlike New York that has a very expansive rail and transit network, despite being underfunded for a long time it still reaches the far ends of the outer suburbs

I drive into Center City Philadelphia every day for work and it’s the worst part of my day. Philly has good transit infrastructure but it runs at low frequencies, largely due to a lack of operational funds. If the proceeds from congestion pricing led to increased subway and regional rail frequency it would be a win-win.

The problem with Congestion Pricing is that very few US cities have a comprehensive enough public transit infrastructure to use as a viable and practical means of moving around the city without a car. If it takes twice as long and multiple transfers to get to where you want to go, Congestion Pricing will fail. Maybe in another 20 years, there will be more cities with good enough public transit infrastructure to support Congestion Pricing.

"And after all, making anyone pay for something that was previously free isn't exactly a popular thing to do." US imposed tariffs have entered the chat. I'd love to see congestion pricing come to all of the major cities on the West Coast who seem to have the most political will to make it happen. San Francisco is obvious due to its geography and abundance of already existing and well used public transit options, and I really want to see I-5 through the heart of Seattle being heavily tolled.

hopefully congestion price becomes a trend and these funds get invested into viable alternatives to driving like protected bike lanes, brt, trams and trains :)

i dont really love to drive, its the only option where i live :/ id rather take the train and do something else until i get to my destination than drive lol

I live in Brooklyn so my neighborhood isn’t directly affected by congestion pricing, but I go to Manhattan fairly often and the difference is STRIKING. That said, I have a minor correction: “lower Manhattan” refers to Manhattan below Houston Street, NOT below 60th street!