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...long-awaited Second Avenue subway line on Manhattan's far East Side. Those multibillion-dollar improvements were to be paid for in part by implementing congestion pricing in Manhattan - charging drivers to enter the most crowded part of the city. As an added benefit, congestion pricing would have helped unclog New York's sclerotic traffic, which now costs the city $13 billion a year in lost economic productivity and dirties New York's air, which is more polluted than that of any other city in the country besides Los Angeles. "It's an essential idea," says Steven Cohen, executive director...
...most vital remaining element in improving Paris and its region's future--and not just for tourists. Though Paris' commuter- and subway-rail network is among the most efficient and dense in the world, its rolling stock is in need of significant modernization. Ways need to be found to unclog saturated Parisian lines--particularly the No. 13, serving St.-Denis to the north; the No. 1 main line that all tourists use, which runs east-west from the Etoile to the Bastille; and the parallel RER commuter line. Three different plans that would cost tens of billions of dollars...
...midst of the transition, President Obama was faced with a telling policy choice: whether to declare a temporary sales-tax holiday. His economic advisers loved the idea. It would provide immediate consumer stimulus, a direct jolt that might unclog the commercial arteries. The money could be easily passed from the Federal Government to the states, which administer sales taxes. But Obama resisted and finally rejected the idea. "He thought it would provide a temporary benefit, that it had no substantial or lasting policy impact," a senior transition adviser told me. "I think he was remembering the campaign, when Hillary...
...Once the bill is signed into law, Paulson will have many options open to him on how to unclog the credit markets, which Senator Judd Gregg, the top negotiator on the bill for Senate Republicans, described as a massive car accident in the middle of the highway. The government must clear the accident away by buying the toxic debt so that normal traffic can flow freely. One avenue will be to do a reverse auction, where banks compete to sell the Treasury their bad paper, with the Treasury choosing the lowest offers. The Treasury may also directly negotiate with companies...
...evening. “The tub in the room backed up, and it overflowed and ran down the walls into the House Office,” Levesque said. Water also flowed into the house gym and the Bullitt Room, a classroom in Quincy. While the plumbers were working to unclog the blockage, students were told not to use their bathrooms, for fear that their flushed or drained water would travel down the pipes and soak the workers trying to fix the system. “We wanted to go on the side of caution,” Levesque said...