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High Gas Prices Do What Congestion Pricing Can't

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Jul 3, 2008 9:06 am US/Eastern

High Gas Prices Do What Congestion Pricing Can't

NYC Car Traffic Down Nearly 5 Percent

NEW YORK (AP) ― High gas prices may succeed where Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed.

Bloomberg's plan to reduce car traffic by charging drivers a fee to enter Manhattan died in Albany.

But soaring gas prices and higher tolls are now having the same effect. With gasoline at more than $4 a gallon, fewer people are driving into the city.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says that traffic at its bridges in tunnels was down 4.7 percent in May compared with the previous year.

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