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The Cost of Driving in Manhattan
Matthew Yglesias —
Felix Salmon reports on a fascinating effort to quantify the externalities associated with driving into the Manhattan Central Business District:
Being a cyclist, I’m acutely aware of the issue of externalities — it generally costs you nothing to blindly step off the sidewalk and into the bike lane, or to open your taxi door without looking behind you, but it can affect me greatly. Komanoff’s a cyclist too, but he’s concentrating in this spreadsheet mainly on vehicular traffic. After crunching the numbers, he calculates that on a weekday, the average car driving south of 60th Street in Manhattan ...
Congestion pricing and free buses in Manhattan: Save $5.2 billion at a cost of $2 billion
Corrente —
Via Felix Salmon. There's a keen spreadsheet ("The Balanced Transportation Analyzer") from transportation geek Charles Komanoff that you can download. Atrios should check this out. Read more…
