mpd618
Active Member
Yeah but the point of reducing congestion is to reduce commute times. People are willing to put up with congested highways because it would take even longer to take transit. This means that the reduction in highway usage that comes with tolls will lead to the poorer people taking an even slower mode of transportation (transit). So tolls only make sense if they fund an increase in the capacity of roadways, or preferably, improvements in suburban transit.
If tolls result in highways being free-flowing, then buses travelling those highways will likely be moving people faster than cars did on the congested highway.