{"id":169,"date":"2015-04-16T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/04\/16\/peak-toll-pricing-does-it-work\/"},"modified":"2015-04-16T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:03:00","slug":"peak-toll-pricing-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/peak-toll-pricing-does-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Toll Pricing: Does it Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peak toll pricing helps pay for roads, but does not help reduce congestion according to the\u00a0nternational Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association. \u00a0Two case studies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Los Angeles County\u2019s Metro\u00a0uses peak toll pricing, which can cost $15 for 11 miles. Their peak toll priced lanes often become so congested, that the lanes are closed for periods of time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Atlanta uses peak toll pricing and is considering approaching the 270 drivers that use the peak pay toll lanes 5 days a week to switch their work schedules. Georgia is also implementing toll credits for transit users and for carpoolers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/gov-toll-road-congestion.html\">Governing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak toll pricing helps pay for roads, but does not help reduce congestion according to the\u00a0nternational Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association. \u00a0Two case studies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Los Angeles County\u2019s Metro\u00a0uses peak toll pricing, which can cost $15 for 11 miles. Their peak toll priced lanes often become so congested, that the lanes are closed for periods of time.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Atlanta uses peak toll pricing and is considering approaching the 270 drivers that use the peak pay toll lanes 5 days &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-roads","category-tollroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}