Abstract: This article describes three California highway projects designed to reduce vehicle use. For Americans, the cost of driving is cheap, which keeps drivers in their cars and off available public transportation. The three California projects described use economic incentives to lure citizens from their cars. They include: 1) instituting congestion pricing on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, where motorists will pay a $3 or $4 peak-hour bridge toll; 2) changing high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes to toll lanes during peak hours on San Diego's Interstate 15; and 3) allowing a private company to build and operate a toll highway in the median of State Route 91 in Orange County, California, that will use congestion pricing as part of their profit strategy. Each project confirms that vehicle users must pay a premium to drive at peak hours and that public transportation will be made available through existing services and new services procured from congestion pricing.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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