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Congestion pricing works when there are alternatives. If you have both no public transport and congestion pricing, what you have is only increased tax collection with no behavioral change.

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No, you'll get car sharing and even if just because you swing by a spot your friend recommended to pick up passengers to near you office, on days you feel like driving yourself, and likely become one such passenger yourself after a couple weeks of that, provided you're not amongst those who couldn't do it without their own car.

That's false because everyone has alternatives (you can stay home, for example). Raising the price will always on margin reduce trips.

How do you get to work when you stay home?

Just be a rich tech worker with a remote job /s

Exactly, we will need to shutdown all the factories when nobody can come to work due to not being able to effort congestion pricing.

If you have to go to work to keep your job, then staying home isn't a great alternative. But there are others! Carpooling for example. Or, maybe you're one of the people that will keep driving. But not everyone is like you, and some won't.

You wouldn't. If you need to get to work, that wouldn't be the option you would exercise.

You'd really quickly find a way to work differently as soon as driving in to work to work for a shift becomes a net-negative on your finances.

Be that a pay raise, be that partially remote work, or carpooling.

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