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Stormwater fees can reduce loss of clean water

Sep 2 2015

How to Stop Turning Valuable Clean Water into Costly Stormwater

Canada’s infrastructure deficit continues to make headlines in the country. The requirement to maintain and build new infrastructure offers an opportunity to think about the interplay between the environmental impacts of our infrastructure, the means by which we pay for these infrastructure and their environmental costs (sounds pretty ecofiscal to me!). This weeks’ blog looks […]

Aug 26 2015

HOV and HOT Lanes: What’s the Difference?

by Adam Baylin-Stern

Livable Cities Congestion Pricing Traffic Wonk Wednesday

High occupancy vehicle (HOV) and high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes are in the news. A temporary network of HOV lanes was in place in the Toronto area during the recent Pan Am and Parapan Am Games (people were divided about this). And Ontario recently announced that it is moving forward with plans to implement HOT […]

Pay-as-you-drive program being introduced in Oregon to raise funds to maintain road infrastructure.

Aug 12 2015

Drive-and-Dash on the Gas Tax: Oregon’s Program

by Adam Baylin-Stern

Livable Cities Congestion Pricing Polluter Pay Traffic User Fees Wonk Wednesday

Oregon just started a third, voluntary trial of a system that could fundamentally change the way that roads are funded in the State. Under the program, instead of paying per gallon of fuel via the gas tax, drivers pay per mile—and people are signing up. But pricing driving more directly can also drive changes in […]

Stuck in traffic cartoon demonstrates need for HOT Lanes.

Jul 30 2015

4 Things You Should Know About HOT Lanes

by Jessie Sitnick

Livable Cities Congestion Pricing Traffic Transit

More choice, less traffic. Let’s have a real conversation about how HOT lanes work and who benefits. Last week, Kathleen Wynne reiterated that HOT lanes (High Occupancy Toll lanes) are on the province’s agenda. She didn’t say where and she didn’t say when, but she did say that planning is in the works and that […]

Traffic Jam in Vancouver - congestion pricing - by https://www.flickr.com/photos/401forester/

Jun 24 2015

Damn This Traffic Jam: Why Economists Hate Congestion Too

by Adam Baylin-Stern

Livable Cities Congestion Pricing Wonk Wednesday

Hate traffic? You’re not alone. Economists hate it too and probably for all the same reasons you do. It costs all of us the one thing we can never get back: time. On a personal level, that’s the gut-wrenching feeling of walking in fifteen minutes late to your 9am meeting (while everyone watches). Or begging […]

May 27 2015

Can We Tackle Traffic Congestion & Climate Change with the Same Policy? Some Grist for the Mill

by Adam Baylin-Stern

Climate and Energy Livable Cities Carbon Pricing Climate Change Congestion Pricing Traffic Wonk Wednesday

On this #WonkWednesday we explore the weird policy space between congestion pricing and carbon pricing. This recent Grist article by Ben Adler poses the important question: how best do we align our transportation policies with our climate goals? In doing so, Adler debates the merits of potential distance-based road charging versus existing gas taxes. But […]

An Open Letter from Economists on Canadian Carbon Pricing

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