SPUR Forum: What Can Be Done About Highway 101?
From SPUR:
9:47 PM PDT on March 30, 2014

Photo courtesy of Flickr user Richard Masoner
From SPUR:
Highway 101 is a backbone of the region, serving more than a million jobs and millions of residents. It’s also congested and unpredictable, but there are limited transit alternatives. Could charging drivers to use 101 make it work better, and what would be the best pricing scheme?
+ Jeff Hobson / Transform
+ Tilly Chang / SFCTA
+ Lisa Klein / MTC
+ John Ristow / VTA
Stan Parkford is a graduate of the Urban Studies and Planning Department at SF State University.
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