Q: Has any other area had luck in managing traffic with surge pricing for bridge tolls? The San Mateo Bridge is super congested between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Perhaps a discounted rate for crossing before 6 a.m. might help manage traffic patterns. I hope I don’t have to get going that early on my […]
Enjoy those free Circulator rides while you can. The D.C. Council on Tuesday cut Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s request for $3.1 million from the fiscal 2020 budget, killing the mayor’s plan to keep Circulator rides free indefinitely. While the free-ride funding was eliminated from the $15.5 billion spending plan, the budget does include money for […]
Leaders representing the District of Columbia have proposed allocating $475,000 to study congestion pricing for vehicles moving in and around the nation’s capital. The Committee on Transportation and the Environment, led by D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh, proposed the study during a markup hearing on the budget May 2. The District Department of Transportation would be […]
A similar study that the Transportation Authority published last year looked more broadly at swelling traffic from 2010 to 2016, and found that transportation network companies comprised about half of it, with the other half stemming from job and population growth. Wednesday’s study narrowly measured the correlation between ride-hailing services and increased congestion. Uber and […]
New York City is preparing to become the first urban area in the U.S. to adopt congestion pricing — a fee for drivers entering the city center, designed to reduce gridlock and help fund the city’s struggling subway system. And nearly two years before the fees are put in place, a poll by Quinnipiac University […]
Congestion pricing won’t make only driving in New York City more expensive. Research suggests it also could boost residential real-estate prices inside the pricing zone. Last month, in a move intended to lighten traffic and raise revenue for the city’s subways, the New York State government agreed to levy congestion fees on cars navigating Manhattan […]
In a sign of intense competition in the premium smartphone segment in India, the price gaps among the top brands are narrowing ahead of the launch of OnePlus 7 series on May 14. Apple, Samsung and Google have recently cut the prices of their premium smartphones in India. Apple has even reduced the price of […]
A gaggle of elected and appointed officials gathered on Staten Island on Sunday morning to announce their support for changing a decades-old tolling policy on the Verrazzano Bridge, which may have a significant benefit for traffic congestion in Lower Manhattan. U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler and City Council member Margaret Chin(both of whom represent Lower Manhattan) […]
Raise your hand if you want to serve on the new Congestion Pricing Commission. As part of the state budget, the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed to impose a flat tax on anyone who drives into Manhattan below 60th Street. But the job of deciding who pays, who doesn’t pay and how much they […]
Autonomous vehicles will soon be ubiquitous on city streets. Before this happens, we should ask ourselves: Will they whisk us quickly through cities or make traffic worse? A car is a car, whether self-driving or people driven—taking up a great deal more space than busses, streetcars, or trains—so let’s make sure the cost is right. […]
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Tesla’s Surprise $6,410 Price Cut Sparks a Rant From One Devotee | Bloomberg
Laurence Blau, 78, woke up Tuesday morning to a frustrating figure: $6,410. That’s the dollar amount that Tesla Inc. had lopped off the list price of a fully loaded performance edition of the Model 3 sedan the night before. Blau, who paid $68,400 for the car less than three weeks earlier, called it a “bitter […]
Drake’s Dynamic Pricing Is A Downer | FYIMusicNews
The last thing Ticketmaster Canada needs right now is another black eye. Hit with $4.5M in fines and levies by Canada’s Competition Bureau last month for allegedly misleading pricing claims in online ticket sales, the company has agreed to a compliance program to ensure their advertising conforms with the law, and will implement new procedures […]
![Airmail Users Frustrated About Sudden Switch to Subscription-Based Pricing on iPhone and iPad [Updated] | MacRumors](http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2019/07/airmail-ios-app.jpg "Airmail Users Frustrated About Sudden Switch to Subscription-Based Pricing on iPhone and iPad [Updated] | MacRumors")
Airmail users awoke today to find out that the popular email app has switched to a subscription-based pricing model on the iPhone and iPad. Airmail for iOS is now free to download on the App Store, but push notifications and multi-account support have become premium features priced at $2.99 per month or $9.99 per year […]
Tesla updates pricing and options across lineup, discontinues several variants | Electrek
Tesla updated its online design studio on Monday evening with several changes in pricing and options across its entire lineup. Some things become cheaper, others become more expensive, and several variants are going away. Over the last year, Tesla has been consistently adjusting its prices, especially in the US as its federal tax credit has […]
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