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San Francisco is studying a London-style plan to charge drivers a fee when they travel to high-traffic areas, like downtown San Francisco, or Doyle Drive during peak commute hours. But is congestion pricing a boon for public transportation? Or the death of downtown?
This feature got a huge response, tapping into a subject no one's neutral on: traffic.
San Francisco and New York are both seriously considering doing this -- other big cities, stay tuned...
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San Francisco is studying a London-style plan to charge drivers a fee when they travel to high-traffic areas, like downtown San Francisco, or Doyle Drive during peak commute hours. But is congestion pricing a boon for public transportation? Or the death of downtown? This feature got a huge response, tapping into a subject no one's neutral on: traffic. San Francisco and New York are both seriously considering doing this -- other big cities, stay tuned...
Broadcast History
Aired twice during C segment -- lcoally on KQED/KQEI. Fridy, November 30.
Transcript
AMBI: office ambi, shades close
Up on the 26th floor of a Van Ness Avenue office building, city planner Billy Charlton draws the shades, and pulls his chair up in front of a very ordinary looking desktop computer.
Ambi: typing background
Meet the SF-CHAMP 3.0, one of the most high-tech traffic modeling programs in the world.
CHARLTON It?s just a big computer program that helps predict what travel patterns are going to look like in the future.
To do that, the model contains anonymous census data on each of San Francisco?s 750 thousand residents. The people in the model commute to work, buy groceries, cart kids around. And like us, they make decisions about how to get where they need to go.
CHARLTON Some of you are going to chose to drive, some of you are going to chose to walk, or bike, and someone will chose to take Muni. And the model accounts for the differences...
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Timing and Cues
hot intro: How?s your commute? Chronic traffic jams have cities from London to Singapore charging drivers a fee to go downtown. Now, San Francisco is considering doing the same. From KQED Amy Standen has more.
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