Yes, as I said earlier: the real goal of congestion pricing is to keep something from being used to capacity (by pricing out most of the people who already use it)https://twitter.com/ALLCAPSBRO/status/978642426914058241 …
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This is a fair point. Firstly, I think that toll roads show that pricing can reduce congestion, however toll roads generally slow down traffic as they enter them. The fact that Uber/Lyft have surge pricing I think shows that whether or not people make trips is malleable to price.
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Toll roads still get congestion lmao, even after switching from toll gates to overhead automatic sensors--we just did this on the MassPike, and it still jams up (Japan has tolls on all expressways, they also get congested)
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Concerning Uber: the crucial advantage that they have is that *capacity increases when costs increase,* which in turn brings costs back down again. Can't do this with fixed infrastructure! New lanes don't appear when the prices jump
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