Congestion Pricing

Randy Cohen, "The Ethicist," of NYT magazine fame, sat down with Open Planning Project Executive Director Mark Gorton to discuss none other than the ethics of the personal car in America. Streetsblog has the interview, edited into a feel-good, nine-minute film.

Mayor Bloomberg take note.

Beijing authorities just concluded a four-day exercise and kept 1.3 million cars off the city streets, as a warm-up to playing Olympic host.

Cars with even-numbered license plates were ordered off roads Friday and Sunday, and vehicles with odd-numbered plates were banned Saturday and Monday. Emergency vehicles, taxis, buses and other public-service vehicles were exempt.

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