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.
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Someone should tax the politicians on the air they exhale.
you get a discount if you have someone who was born of the opposite sex but now identifies as the same gender as yourself.
They are building it as we speak. Does not exist yet, and it will not reach my ‘burb until 2050 ... but the taxes for it are already in full force.
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