Luckily, the Texas Department of Transportation and Texas research institutions have studied how to implement credit-based congestion pricing (the correct answer) for the Austin region fairly extensively.
Let’s do this!
Jay Blazek Crossley
Every metropolitan area in the US should be studying congestion pricing now to be ready to implement with a new administration.
There is no other tool that so quickly and effectively decreases traffic, increase bus speeds, increases transit ridership, and reduces emissions.
Rebecca Saltzman
- MTA bus speeds in & around the decongestion zone increased 2.3%, reversing years of decline & delivering more reliable trips.
- Ridership grew on routes through the decongestion zone: subway trips +9%, local/select bus +8.4%, express bus +7.8%.
- Greenhouse gas emissions in the zone fell ~6.1%
