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traffic congestion problem of Northern Virginia. Third, a dollar-a-day commuter parking tax for D C. was proposed, , but the tax was deemed unfair to commuters lacking access to public transportation. Fourth, the U S. General Accounting Office has now noted that certain motorists are willing to pay a fee to travel in lesscrowded rush hour lanes normally restricted to vehicles with multiple riders, with the extra money raised used for, say, express buses for lowerincome motorists who could not afford the fees. But is this a “tax” in disguise?
One must remember that northern Virginia is not London. The English have a community spirit and value their culture, whereas Americans are intensely individualistic and value money above all else. Probably no form of congestion “tax” would likely be acceptable in northern Virginia.
What is the answer? Possibly technology'. Over 100 years ago. New York City had a similar traffic problem. Some 200,000 horses were on the street, each producing an average of 24 pounds of manure a day. With 2,400 tons of horse manure dropping on the streets each day, the manure drew millions of flies, which spread infectious diseases, such as typhoid fever.
One writer in 1908 noted that each year 20,000 NewYorkers died from “maladies that fly in the dust, created mainly by horse manure.”
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