Documenting Seattle's Next Infrastructure Upgrade

Problems With Pay Per Mile


Posted by Frank on December 05 2007

Willamette Week gets at some of the problems with the mileage tax, which many have suggested as an alternate method of financing roads and managing congestion. People participating in the program mostly seemed to like it, but big advocacy groups, from environmentalists to civil libertarians, are opposed. Installing a device in people's cars that tracks their movements will encounter a ton of political resistance.





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