{"id":1808,"date":"2006-01-05T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/01\/05\/stockholm-testing-traffic-tolls\/"},"modified":"2006-01-05T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T00:50:00","slug":"stockholm-testing-traffic-tolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/stockholm-testing-traffic-tolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm Testing Traffic Tolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From ENN, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enn.com\/today.html?id=9597\">news<\/a> that Stockholm, Sweden is trying out a traffic toll like those in London and Oslo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drivers had to pay a fee to enter Stockholm on Tuesday as the city started a seven-month trial of a contentious program designed to reduce traffic and cut pollution in the Swedish capital.<\/p>\n<p>Stockholm is the latest capital to experiment with congestion fees, which have already been introduced in London and Singapore. Oslo, Norway, has a flat fee for cars entering the city.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the time of day, Stockholm drivers have to pay between 10 kronor and 20 kronor, or about euro1-euro2, when they enter or exit the city&#8217;s center. The toll is in effect from 6:30 a.m. to 6:29 p.m. every weekday. There is no fee on weekends, holidays or at night.<\/p>\n<p>City officials hope the initiative will cut traffic on the busiest streets by up to 15 percent, but critics say the toll is too expensive and that low-income commuters living in the suburbs will be hardest hit. Some local politicians have also complained that the national government is collecting the revenue and not the city.<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Nilson, a spokesman for the Swedish Automobile Association, called the congestion tax a &#8220;violent attack on democracy,&#8221; noting that recent polls have shown a majority of Stockholm residents oppose it.<\/p>\n<p>The group staged protests at entry points to the city, where it loaded cars onto trucks so that they could evade the congestion charge. Cars being towed or carried on a trailer are exempt from the fee. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spoken favorably of raising taxes as a way of passing the costs of driving back to drivers, and gotten roundly spanked for it&#8230; I think this is good idea, though, and I&#8217;d love to see US cities (other than San Francisco) try this out along with more toll roads.  At the same time, I&#8217;m certainly aware that these kinds of taxes hit the poor the hardest.  Any ideas out there for kinder, gentler ways to encourage people to leave the car at home?<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/traffic\" rel=\"tag\">traffic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/tax\" rel=\"tag\">tax<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/toll\" rel=\"tag\">toll<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/pollution\" rel=\"tag\">pollution<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/urban\" rel=\"tag\">urban<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/Stockholm\" rel=\"tag\">Stockholm<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jmcstras\/Sweden\" rel=\"tag\">Sweden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ENN, news that Stockholm, Sweden is trying out a traffic toll like those in London and Oslo: Drivers had to pay a fee to enter Stockholm on Tuesday as&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stockholm Testing Traffic Tolls &#8226; 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