Taipei Says Transit First, Then Charge

The mayor of Taipei, Hau Lung-bin, made the same argument today that many City congestion pricing opponents have been making for weeks: mass transit must be improved before any charge is enacted.

Lung-bin told a group of government officials earlier that he is open to the idea of a congestion charge, but would not consider such a plan until his city's mass transit system was fully upgraded, a process expected to take four more years.

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