There’s a great article in the SF Chronicle discussing flaws in the logic behind SF’s proposed “congestive pricing” toll. The idea behind the toll is to get people out of their cars and on to public transportation, but if the current transit system can’t support the new commuters it creates, is the toll an effective solution? Even members of San Francisco County Transportation Authority admit this constitutes a problem:

“We totally get that,” said Tilly Chang, deputy director of planning for the authority. “With Muni, the issue is crowding and reliability, with BART it is getting a seat and a parking place, and Caltrain is really running at capacity. And frankly, the travel times are just not competitive in some cases.”

Although London has implemented a version of this program successfully, the big difference between SF and London is a transit system already in place which can handle the projected ridership.

You can read the whole article here – in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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