Simply repairing aging highways will “perpetuate a car culture that isn’t working” and is a “short-term band-aid to our long-term infrastructure needs,’’ Mr. Stringer wrote in an opinion piece published in The Daily News. “When you get rid of highways, people find other ways to get around,” Mr. Stringer said. In cities around the world, congestion pricing did decrease car traffic, though in some places it rose again. panel and the president and chief executive of the New York Building Congress, a trade association for the building industry. “It’s pretty bad with six lanes, I can’t imagine what it would be like with four lanes,” he said.

Source: New York Times January 30, 2020 22:30 UTC