Uneasy Rhetoric

If I had a dollar for every time I blew my nose during the months of March, April, and September, I’d be rich I tell you.

Oh, not that kind of congestion. According to an article in the SF Examiner, the city of San Francisco is playing with the idea charging motorists to drive in the central city. A similar system in Stockholm, Sweden and London, United Kingdom is generating millions of dollars that the cities are pouring right back in to public transit. Which is a good thing, because, when the system was introduced in London, public transit ridership increased substantially.

But could such an idea really fly in the United States? Could it fly anywhere but in San Francisco, a quasi-European city to begin with?

The idea has some merit, provided the city adopting it uses the new revenue to improve its public transit system, not just finance a current one.

(via Walk Sacramento’s email list)