COUNTERPOINT: Don’t Let the MTA’s Glitchy Traffic Model Take Down Congestion PricingParts of Nicole Gelinas’s begrudging take on congestion pricing practically beg for pushback. Congestion pricing is more resilient with respect to easing gridlock than she allows. But the congestion charge conceivably could catalyze measures like curbside pricing and area-wide traffic pricing that would raise additional billions. Getting congestion pricing in place doesn’t guarantee those follow-on steps, but abandoning it pretty much ensures they’ll never happen. The detractors who never tire of reminding us that New York City congestion pricing is a bigger endeavor than congestion pricing in London and Stockholm never seem to note that the effort invested to put it into practice here has been orders magnitude greater than it was there.

Source: The Guardian August 15, 2022 05:08 UTC