blogs.wsj.com - 12/30/2008
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Are environmental initiatives too important to be left to voters? That's the issue raised by the squabble over congestion pricing in San Francisco. Making drivers pay extra to drive downtown at peak hours may have failed in New York, but surely in environmentally-friendly San Francisco ...
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... San Franciscans Resist Congestion-Pricing Plan: Public opposition to fees for driving into San Francisco raises the question of whether environmental initiatives are too important to be left to voters. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital ...
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... -- you might think a congestion fee plan would pass with flying colors. But there's apparently a limit to what even the greenest metropolises are willing to do in the US. SF's once popular congestion pricing plan -- modeled after London's Congestion Zone -- is starting to run into road blocks as drivers and business owners line up against the $6 charge to enter the city. ...
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