Report: We Don’t Need More Infrastructure — We Need Congestion Pricing

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By Angie SchmittFeb 14, 2019, 11:01 am198 pts
The U.S. does not need to build more highways — it needs to spend more on aging urban rail systems and use congestion pricing to ease gridlock in urban areas, a new report shows. In contrast to the “crumbling infrastructure” rhetoric, Matthew Turner at the Brookings Institution [PDF] argues that…

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