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Friday Video: How Great a City Can Be with Congestion Pricing

Cities with congestion pricing are great places to live, work, bike and walk. See why.

Wish we were here!

Flashback time: Last year, Streetsblog Editor Gersh Kuntzman went on a fact- (and lutefisk-) finding mission to Stockholm to see all the impacts from that city's nearly-two-decade implementation of congestion pricing.

Kuntzman wrote story after story after story about how walkable and bikeable Stockholm is, but it really helps if you just see it:

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