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Bucharest abandons Oxygen tax, amid high pollution event

March 5, 2020 July 15, 2022
Illegal trash burning in Bucharest thought to have caused bad air quality problem in March 2020

Last week, on the eve of instituting a tax on polluting cars entering the central area of Bucharest, the Mayor of Bucharest, Gabriela Firea, abandoned the so-called Oxygen Tax plan. Under the plan cars not meeting the Euro 3 criteria would be banned from the center of Bucharest, and overall…

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San Francisco mulls congestion pricing, seeking safety and climate change solutions

December 11, 2019 December 10, 2019

Major cities like San Francisco often have traffic congestion problems. During heavy traffic times, cars are typically gridlocked with slowly moving traffic, and the number of vehicles means a concentration of toxic exhaust fumes. Many cities around the world have implemented congestion pricing to limit the number of vehicles and…

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Gov. Brown signs laws that might help EV adoption while causing other problems

September 23, 2014 July 20, 2015

Over the weekend California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a list of bills focusing on climate change issues, some of which would expand support for electric cars.  I’ve seen some in the EV community applaud these moves, but I see a mixed bag of some things which might be useful and…

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Transportation advocates looking to eliminate, or at least reduce, car use for environmental goals

August 28, 2014 March 30, 2015

There’s a movement afoot aiming to drastically reduce driving, the need for driving, and the need for parking, all in the name of environmental goodness.  The theory is that reducing vehicle miles traveled will reduce the negative environmental impact (like greenhouse gas emissions) from transportation, and there will be additional…

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Orange County Biz Council applauds CALTRANS effort to preserve sprawl

July 26, 2014 July 20, 2015

The Los Angeles area is infamous for sprawl, huge giga-highways, bad air conditions, and people stuck in gridlocked cars for hours at a time.  The success of the automobile as a transportation method has led to, in the U.S., a massive system of highways, cities designed for the benefit of…

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