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Maybe it got lost in the heat of the debate. Maybe they didn’t think it was important enough to have an opinion on at the time. Whatever the reason, Seattle mayoral candidates Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon didn’t directly weigh in on the idea of congestion pricing in the city Friday morning.

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成人X站 Radio traffic reporter Chris Sullivan brought up congestion pricing — pitched by Councilmember Mike O’Brien — as well as the idea of having the bike community pay for bike lanes. Why not have those who use the bike lanes pay for them, through bicycle licensing? he asked.

Cary Moon responded first.

Most bikers are also car owners and they鈥檙e also property taxpayers. They are paying for all the infrastructure that we are all using together.

Licensing bikes isn鈥檛 a bad idea, I would definitely look at that.

I think it is our responsibility as city leadership, as mayor, to watch out for all the commuters who are coming into work in our city. So, absolutely, I would like to be putting in better bus service for folks coming in from outside of town to work in Seattle. I was part of the , which really looked at this issue of the congestion in downtown and how do we make sure we鈥檙e moving enough people. It鈥檚 about investing in bus priority, investing in bus services, making sure the buses that come into downtown come all the way to your workplace. It鈥檚 about making sure we鈥檙e using the limited street space we have as efficiently as possible to move people and goods.

And the solutions we came up with through that are a similar set of solutions we came up in 2007 with the This is an issue I鈥檝e been working on for 10 years. It鈥檚 time for courageous implementation of bold solutions.

Durkan followed.

Some people have to bring their car in. But we also want to make it easier for people coming from outside the city not to have to bring a car. So I鈥檓 going to look at more park and ride facilities, for example; adding those to the terminuses at the ends of the city so people can have a one-seat ride. They come in, park their car. Make some agreements with people so it doesn鈥檛 increase the cost that much. We鈥檝e got to look at every way we can to get cars off the road. Because it鈥檚 just math, we have more cars than street space and so I think we鈥檙e going to have to use a whole range of tools to do that.

The idea of congestion pricing came up as the city looks ahead a few years and prepares for the opening of the new tunnel. There is concern that the tunnel will push more drivers onto surface streets due to tolls and the lack of mid-town exits. Congestion pricing would charge drivers for using Seattle’s roads, especially during peak times.

鈥淭o maintain the bus service, what we need to do is make sure that there aren鈥檛 more cars on our streets downtown,鈥� Councilmember Mike O鈥橞rien told 成人X站 7.

The two mayoral candidates have said the city should at least explore the idea. the two finally addressed the issue in mid-October. Durkan said the city will need “a range of innovative solutions to deal” with the traffic problem. Moon said the city should consider congestion pricing, “but make sure we can offer sufficient transit, biking and walking alternatives before we leap.”