Of course, Singapore has also had a congestion pricing system in place for nearly 40 years.
In New York, where it has been repeatedly squashed, congestion pricing is peeping up again.
Another hugely controversial issue will be whether, and how, to introduce congestion pricing for vehicles, probably at first in the bottom half of Manhattan.
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New York will eventually pass a congestion pricing plan, maintains Sadik-Khan.
That suggests, at the very least, that congestion pricing should be applied judiciously to resolve specific acute problems, rather than as part of a broader effort to curb traffic.
Congestion pricing: The supply-and-demand rule in action, digitally.
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Out of Los Angeles and Oakland, it's highway gridlock, merely the beginning of a trucking nightmare that extends into much of the U.S. Not only are few roads being built in urban locales, and congestion pricing that would free up existing capacity being blocked, but neglected bridges and tunnels portend more Minneapolis-like calamities.
Cloud services being hit with a lot of requests will require more capacity, which costs more, and the congestion-pricing model passes theses costs onto the consumer.
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The Transport Committee has its last session on the traffic management inquiry (how do you knock utility company heads together to limit holes in the road and curb congestion without road pricing etc...).
Still, if politics or technology rules out congestion-based road-pricing, a second-best case can be made for raising the petrol tax instead.
The government would also be looking into road pricing as another possible means of tackling congestion, he added.
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Carriers have argued (lied, frankly) that such penalties are necessary due to network congestion or financial well being, despite the fact that flat-rate pricing has been perfectly profitable, the costs of delivering broadband continue to plummet, and most well-run fixed-line networks experience limited to no substantive congestion.
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On the roads, congestion is almost certain to get worse (unless an economic slowdown curbs it) until nationwide road pricing is introduced.
Road pricing, adjusted for place and time, can, by contrast, be fixed precisely to reduce congestion.
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