Congestion pricing

I said a long time ago that we should erect toll booths at the DC border and exact fees from suburbanites who work here, both to recoup the costs of road maintenance and to encourage more use of the public transit system versus the congested roads. New York is another of a handful of cities that could get away with it, as the attractiveness of being located in the city will outweigh any disincentive produced by such fines (whereas a city like Cleveland would be insane to try this move, given the corporate flight problems it already has). Apparently, there are some in New York who are starting to think seriously about this, according to the Times. Good for them.