After NYC, Will Los Angeles Be Next to Consider Congestion Pricing?

[Disir]

The key to unclogging the Los Angeles area’s notoriously congested roads could be to charge drivers during peak hours of the day. A new study looked at a so-called congestion pricing proposal to charge a $4 fee during rush hour for drivers who enter one of the region’s most gridlocked corners: the space between two intersecting freeways in western Los Angeles and eastern Santa Monica.

The money raised from the fee would be used to improve transit options and to subsidize access to the area for low-income drivers. Similar systems are already in place in parts of central London and Stockholm, and the idea is picking up steam in lower Manhattan.

“This is the type of policy that could have the greatest impact on quality of life in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of resources,” says Darin Chidsey, the interim executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), which conducted the study.
Hate Traffic? Charging People to Drive in Congested Areas Could Reduce It.

I would really like the precise definition of "quality of life" and for whom. Secondly, how many times does a person have to pay to use the road? People pay taxes for roads. People pay a special fee each way when using a toll road. Now they want to have people pay a fee for the roads they already paid for. What kind of stupid crap is that?

 

[Oddball]

And they already have the roads segregated into HOV lanes, yet the highways are still plugged up.

The traffic in the LA basin has been a shit show for decades...This is just another big money grab.

 

[Thinker101]

The key to unclogging the Los Angeles area’s notoriously congested roads could be to charge drivers during peak hours of the day. A new study looked at a so-called congestion pricing proposal to charge a $4 fee during rush hour for drivers who enter one of the region’s most gridlocked corners: the space between two intersecting freeways in western Los Angeles and eastern Santa Monica.

The money raised from the fee would be used to improve transit options and to subsidize access to the area for low-income drivers. Similar systems are already in place in parts of central London and Stockholm, and the idea is picking up steam in lower Manhattan.

“This is the type of policy that could have the greatest impact on quality of life in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of resources,” says Darin Chidsey, the interim executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), which conducted the study.
Hate Traffic? Charging People to Drive in Congested Areas Could Reduce It.

I would really like the precise definition of "quality of life" and for whom. Secondly, how many times does a person have to pay to use the road? People pay taxes for roads. People pay a special fee each way when using a toll road. Now they want to have people pay a fee for the roads they already paid for. What kind of stupid crap is that?

Oh goody, another opportunity for politicians to piss away more money.

 

[Cellblock2429]

The key to unclogging the Los Angeles area’s notoriously congested roads could be to charge drivers during peak hours of the day. A new study looked at a so-called congestion pricing proposal to charge a $4 fee during rush hour for drivers who enter one of the region’s most gridlocked corners: the space between two intersecting freeways in western Los Angeles and eastern Santa Monica.

The money raised from the fee would be used to improve transit options and to subsidize access to the area for low-income drivers. Similar systems are already in place in parts of central London and Stockholm, and the idea is picking up steam in lower Manhattan.

“This is the type of policy that could have the greatest impact on quality of life in the shortest amount of time with the least amount of resources,” says Darin Chidsey, the interim executive director of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), which conducted the study.
Hate Traffic? Charging People to Drive in Congested Areas Could Reduce It.

I would really like the precise definition of "quality of life" and for whom. Secondly, how many times does a person have to pay to use the road? People pay taxes for roads. People pay a special fee each way when using a toll road. Now they want to have people pay a fee for the roads they already paid for. What kind of stupid crap is that?

/---/ First it was red light cameras, then speed cameras, then toll road cameras, now this new tax is coming to a town near you.