Congestion pricing is the closest thing in this world to a free lunch. Imagine if instead of traffic you had to sit at home until a crystal ball told you it’s your turn to drive. That is effectively what we do. Congestion pricing replaces this value-destroying waiting with a value-transferring tax. Fixes a huge deadweight loss. I hope it is hugely popular in NY so it gets adopted in SF. 

(We should also build another bay bridge, because capacity is valuable, regardless of whether it reduces queuing)