Congestion pricing is the brilliant idea that traffic congestion can be alleviated by making the roads too expensive for poorer people to use during peak times.

Congestion pricing is the brilliant idea that traffic congestion can be alleviated by making the roads too expensive for poorer people to use during peak times. It's very hard to see making the poor pay a regressive tax for traffic congestion, that they have no say in creating, as a social good.