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Guangzhou opened a new BRT system to help reduce traffic, but experts say other solutions, like congestion pricing, should also be considered. Photo by everywhereATonce,
As heard today on The New York Times Dot Earth blog, Chinese officials in Guangzhou — China’s third largest city and the capital of Guangdong (China’s wealthiest province) — are considering congestion pricing as an option to address increasing traffic woes. In Andy Revkin’s “Postcard from a Guangzhou Traffic Jam,” Charles Komanoff, a transportation and traffic specialist from New York City who advised Mayor Bloomberg on a congestion pricing plan for Manhattan’s busiest blocks, draws lessons learned from Bloomberg’s failure to win state Democrats’ approval of the proposal to Guangzhou. Komanoff presented his experience with the NYC plan in an “International Symposium on Analysis and Countermeasures of Traffic Congestion in Urban Centers,” noting that because traffic gridlock affects every major Chinese city, he along with the other invited speakers were “tailed by the media as if we were rock stars.”
Celebrity stardom aside, Komanoff makes a few interesting points with regards to the prospect of congestion pricing for China: Read the full story »
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