Chicago Tribune (December 12)
“Dynamic pricing models are popping up on express toll lanes. Proponents “say it encourages motorists to carpool, use mass transit or pick alternate routes. And if a commuter is willing to pay a premium to get to work faster, that’s their choice.” But some systems price “out people who can’t afford $40 to drive a 10-mile stretch of pavement. It creates what detractors call ‘Lexus lanes.’”
Forbes (September 8)
“As for Olympic infrastructure, the Japanese are famously good at meeting deadlines, which should come in handy when state-of-the-art new facilities need to be built. Another factor is Tokyo’s mass transit system, which in many ways is the world’s most sophisticated – indeed far more sophisticated than it was in the 1980s, when it was already well ahead of most Western cities.”
Tags: Deadlines, Facilities, Infrastructure, Japan, Mass transit, Olympics, Sophisticated, Tokyo
