Transportation
8 Bay Area Traffic Reduction Policies, Ranked
From congestion pricing to parking fees to transit incentives.
If you’re a Bay Area commuter stuck in rush-hour traffic, Steve Raney has some ideas for how to ease your pain. Eight, to be exact.
The mobility guru at Joint Venture Silicon Valley recently outlined that many congestion-relief schemes for the Bay Area. He then asked a handful of transportation experts (one federal, two state, and one local, alongside himself) to rate the policy plans from 1 to 5 on five weighted dimensions: congestion reduction, greenhouse gas reduction, cost-effectiveness, equity, and ease of implementation. Finally, he tallied the scores into a table, redrawn below to rank the plans from highest to lowest: