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Even that incentive may be good for society overall though. Efficient transportation is not a zero-sum game. There are currently people sitting in traffic who
by aeternus 8y ago
Even that incentive may be good for society overall though. Efficient transportation is not a zero-sum game. There are currently people sitting in traffic who are willing & able to pay more not to sit in traffic.
By building systems which allow those people to pay more, then reinvesting that revenue in transportation improvements, everyone can benefit.
Of course we need to be careful not to create a premium-only product, but some balance should be achievable.
- joejerryronnie 8y agoThe issue is that any revenue generated by congestion pricing will be spent on unfunded pension liabilities, not transportation improvements.
- brudgers 8y agoThere's no economically rational incentive to spend congestion pricing revenue on measures that reduce congestion. To maintain a constant revenue stream, congestion pricing has to rise as congestion decreases...like cigarette taxes congestion pricing is a tax scheme incentivized to become increasingly regressive.