Sentence examples for congestion fee from inspiring English sources

The system fuses congestion fee data with information from video cameras, G.P.S. devices in taxis and sensors embedded in streets.

Mr. Livingstone said the congestion fee for drivers of vehicles that produced the lowest carbon emissions would be dropped.

Mayor Bloomberg's version of bread and roses is a freebie with efficiency — the plan has all the pleasures of a congestion fee without that troublesome fee.

In exchange for the $1 billion contribution, drivers crossing into Manhattan from New Jersey would pay the standard $8 toll and not an additional congestion fee.

"It would necessitate, for revenues to be generated for mass transit, the dramatic increase in the charge," Mr. McCaffrey said of the congestion fee.

Opposition to the plan has been strongest in Queens, Brooklyn and suburban communities, where many of the drivers who would pay the congestion fee live.

Proposals to impose congestion fees have failed politically, and on-street parking is priced artificially low.

The Department of Transportation has suggested that "congestion fees" be imposed for landings, which would vary based on traffic and time of day.

Imposing congestion fees, the mayor said, "will encourage people to take mass transit, it will give us the money to build more mass transit, it will clean the air and give our children much better air to breathe — and also for adults, incidentally".

On top of implementing a no-car zone within the city's central ring road, Oslo plans a number of other proposals, including building at least 40 miles of new bike lanes, introducing rush-hour charges (on top of existing congestion fees) and removing parking spaces.

Several new technologies and companies have also made it easier for local governments to implement more sophisticated, adjustable toll pricing or congestion fees at a much lower cost.