[megaremote]

This is for New York, which has awesome public transport.

And how do you get better public transport in cities? By getting cars out of them.

And we should actually start getting drivers to pay for what they use, instead of subsidising them billions.

[ars]

I think you should do the opposite: Make public transport free.

Transportation is a basic service cities should provide for free, that includes both roads and public transport.

[sethhochberg]

"Free" isn't free - road use in private cars vs shared transportation in buses or rail have dramatically different costs and returns per person in terms of pollution, percentages of public space used for vehicle storage, peak throughput for a given corridor over time, fuel cost, etc. Congestion pricing is about adjusting the incentives between road use and transit use to encourage more efficiency with the lowest overall cost to society.