hard · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Critics argue that the city's new congestion charge has failed, since in the year after it took effect total downtown traffic volume was essentially unchanged from the year before. But this is no failure. The charge applies only on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. In the year before the charge, weekday-daytime traffic had been rising sharply while weekend and overnight traffic was flat, and the city projected that, absent any intervention, weekday-daytime growth alone would have pushed total annual volume up by 8 percent.
Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument that the congestion charge succeeded?
- Several other cities that adopted similar weekday-only congestion charges saw their total downtown traffic volume decline within a single year of adoption.
- In the year the charge was in effect, downtown weekend and overnight traffic volume happened to rise by an amount roughly equal to the city's projected growth in weekday-daytime volume.
- Surveys taken after the charge began show that the large majority of downtown drivers were aware of the charge and of the specific hours during which it applied.
- Weekday-daytime traffic volume in the year the charge was in effect was no higher than weekday-daytime volume had been two full years before the charge took effect.
- Revenue collected from the congestion charge during its first year exceeded the city's own pre-launch revenue projections by a wide margin.
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