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The Halifax Peninsula is used as a case study to illuminate the topic. The purpose of this article is to expose some of the technical and administrative issues that come with enacting and implementing congestion charges.
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The literature provides detailed rationales for congestion charges but minimal consideration on how to implement such charges once the decision to proceed has been made.

Congestion charges pose a policy dilemma due to the balance that must be made between the management of a quasi public good along with the correction of negative externalities against the needs of economic, demographic, and urban growth along with citizen acceptance.
