Posted on 04/04/2018 9:33:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has unveiled a dozen initiatives aimed at tackling the city's persistent carbon problem. Congestion pricing, also known as tolls, tops the list.
Any tolling system on cars entering downtown would help fund expanded transit service and more electric-vehicle charging stations in underserved neighborhoods, according to the mayor's office.
The measures are intended to help Seattle turn a corner on its spotty record on greenhouse gas emissions.
Seattle officials have long claimed to be national leaders on climate change by slashing the city's carbon dioxide emissions, even as the growing city's emissions have stubbornly hovered around 6 million tons a year.
"We know that we can reduce our greenhouse gases significantly," Durkan said.
The biggest culprit is transportation, mostly cars.
"We have around 400,000 vehicles entering our center city on a daily basis. We need to reduce that amount," Durkan said. "You have to also commit to having that infrastructure that allows people to get out of their cars."
The mayor's proposal for congestion pricing had few specifics. The Seattle Department of Transportation is expected to finish a study of various tolling options by the end of the year.
(Excerpt) Read more at kuow.org ...
“Congestion pricing” makes sense to make cities better, but it is utterly ridiculous to drape the “carbon” bogie man on it.
we'll never pay you a toll...ever....
good luck on the tourism biz...
They should also charge in bathrooms for nbr 2...hey why not. Seattle 30 years ago was a nice place...
If an individual had such delusions he’d be declared psychotic and committed.
“Any tolling system...would help fund...more electric-vehicle charging stations in underserved neighborhoods.”
“Underserved” in the case of EVs would be households making only $300k per year and don’t have a nearby charging station. Oh, the humanity!
I honestly don’t expect to find many Tesla cars in Section 8 housing areas, your traditional definition of “underserved.”
The old liberal impulse to transfer income from one class to another is very strong in Seattle.
I agree with the Mare, Seattle residents shouldn’t be allowed to drive cars. That way the liberal pukes couldn’t infect other areas with their warped thinking.
First world problems.
There’s no place to park in Havana on the Sound, anyway. I used to find free street parking right by the Seattle Center back in the 70’s for Sonic games. A few less invaders and bums back then, though.
All this will do is shift most companies around to the idea of leaving the city and locating safely beyond the city-limit.
I will admit...at least in the early 80s when I lived around the region in Tacoma....I thought Seattle was a great place on weekends.
First step in forcing High Speed Rail down their throats?
Or does a ‘Progressive’ city like this already have it and no one uses it at great Taxpayer expense with no convenience for anyone?
Well, this is one way to solve the problem.
Here is another way to solve the problem.
Move the city!
I’ve seen those big movers that can carry a ship.
Just jack up Seattle and move it!
To, say, Venezuela.
As a first step in the march to eliminate the evil automobile and its foul noxious fumes as well as cut down on electric vehicles which consume precious hydropower, the city will bar the entry of any boat, ship or other water/seagoing vessel carrying those vile contraption.
Let Tacoma take the car carrying ship, ferries and the like. We at Seattle are pure and we are tuning the lights off at 10 PM so wee can see the stars!
Seattle 30 years ago was a nice place...
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A bit nutty for my tastes 30 years ago or as it was called then: The Farside, but 20 years before that it was actually a very nice place to live. People actually worked for a living then; the trust-funders were still in California.
Three times I read that, and each time I read it as "undeserved". Which led me to read on to find out who made the decision if it was deserved or not ... which led me to re-read it again, until I finally read it as "underserved".
Never mind ...
The main problem is that Seattle (King County) is affecting the entire state with their “progressive” policies. Wife and I are mere months away from making our escape east of the mountains. While some of the west side’s policies are still felt there, the impact is not nearly as toxic as it is in the entire west side.
Well yeah...but in 70s I worked near downtown and as a youngish woman could walk downtown without fear. I’m old enough to remember Smith Tower as tallest building...
West side: liberal wackos, East side: environmentalists liking to burn people out to get the property cheap.
Me too!
Just the ne'er-do-wells from the neighborhoods normal people try to avoid.
Liberals feel it's their obligation to provide access to [violent] crime-deprived areas for gimmedats from the economically depressed 'hoods.
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