{"620150":{"#nid":"620150","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally Makes That Plain","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongestion pricing has the potential to significantly change how traffic flows through Manhattan streets, how commuters get around the city, how companies like Uber and Lyft operate. But most radically, if the policy spreads it could challenge a deeply embedded cultural idea, requiring people to pay for something Americans have long demanded \u0026mdash; and largely believe they\u0026rsquo;ve gotten \u0026mdash; free of charge. Congestion pricing is premised instead on the notion that public roads are a valuable and scarce resource. And we should pay in some places to use it not primarily to gin up revenue, but to help manage access for everyone. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a huge departure from how we\u0026rsquo;ve culturally thought about this over the years,\u0026rdquo; said Kari Watkins, a professor at\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026rsquo;s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34961","created_gmt":"2019-04-06 04:51:53","changed_gmt":"2019-04-06 04:52:13","author":"anguyen328","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Would never be part of any organization that would have me as a member","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/04\/upshot\/the-streets-were-never-free-congestion-pricing-finally-makes-that-plain.html","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}