Congestion in sentence

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They're relieving congestion, and they're frankly starting to save some fuel.

So with cities, you also have congestion and pollution and disease and all these negative things.

I'm here to talk about congestion, namely road congestion.

Road congestion is a pervasive phenomenon.

And let's now look at how we can use this insight to combat road congestion.

Now, that's also wrong, because traffic happens to be a nonlinear phenomenon, meaning that once you reach above a certain capacity threshold then congestion starts to increase really, really rapidly.

If you can reduce traffic even somewhat, then congestion will go down much faster than you might think.

Now, congestion charges were introduced in Stockholm on January 3, 2006, and the first picture here is a picture of Stockholm, one of the typical streets, January 2. The first day with the congestion charges looked like this.

You really reduce congestion quite substantially.

It's now six and a half years ago since the congestion charges were introduced in Stockholm, and we basically have the same low traffic levels still.

Well, the thing is that, the congestion charges, they were introduced first as a trial, so they were introduced in January and then abolished again at the end of July, followed by a referendum, and then they were reintroduced again in 2007, which of course was a wonderful scientific opportunity.

This is the last day with the congestion charges, July 31, and you see the same street but now it's summer, and summer in Stockholm is a very nice and light time of the year, and the first day without the congestion charges looked like this.

This shows public support for congestion pricing of Stockholm, and you see that when congestion pricing were introduced in the beginning of Spring 2006, people were fiercely against it.

But what happened when the congestion charges were there is not what you would expect, that people hated it more and more.

They're actually confident that they have liked congestion pricing all along.

Which means that we are now in a position where we have reduced traffic across this toll cordon with 20 percent, and reduced congestion by enormous numbers, and people aren't even aware that they have changed, and they honestly believe that they have liked this all along.

Pedestrian zones, congestion fees, emission limits in cities like California cities have, there's lots and lots that cities can do even when opaque, stubborn nations refuse to act.

That, to me, only implies that there's even more congestion on the roads, frankly.

We have a great intersection of highways, I mean, literally no traffic congestion in Oklahoma City to speak of.

Much of the road congestion in and out of our cities will disappear.

I think you have chronic allergies, and I think you have migraine headaches and some sinus congestion, and I think all of those are related to where you live."

And with it, comes congestion, and we lose mobility, and so on and so forth.

If we manage it in a negligent or a shortsighted way, we will create waste, pollution, congestion, destruction of land and forests.

I've already described the problems of Beijing: pollution, congestion, waste and so on.

We've seen more: In London, we've introduced the congestion charge, actually quite quickly and effectively, and we've seen great improvements in the bus system, and cleaned up the bus system.

The demand for parking, of course, is down, congestion and the CO2 emissions.

In London, the day they turned the congestion pricing on, there was a 25 percent decrease in congestion overnight, and that's persisted for the four years in which they've been doing congestion pricing.

And what congestion pricing is is that it's a technology trial and a psychological trial for something called road pricing.

Whatever happens with congestion pricing and those technologies will be happening with road pricing.

So, I want to move now to the second part of my story, which is: when are we going to start doing this congestion pricing?

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