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Toll roads increase the value of land closer to where jobs are at the expense of land further out. Guess where the rich and powerful live (and own land) and guess where the poor and marginalised live.

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The solution to this problem is to upzone that land so that more people can live there. If more people wind up living close to their jobs, that's a good thing. Commutes are bad for workers and bad for society.

You explicitly mention SF in your other comment; I agree that proper zoning and getting people to live near to where they work is a better solution (or, better mass transit in lieu or in addition to that), but attempting to convince SF and the Bay Area that has been an uphill, losing battle thus far.

But that upzoning is a better solution doesn't negate the argument that congestion pricing hurts the wrong set of people.

If the Boring Company is successful, the tolls for using the first tunnels will be used to build more and eventually everyone will have a low-cost toll tunnels to use.

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