Congestion Pricing from Freakonomics

One of my favorite ideas for improving transport is congestion pricing. There were two great guest articles on the subject in the New York Times Freakonomics blog a couple days ago and today. Here are the links:

Why You'll Love Paying for Roads That Used to be Free - Part 1 and

Why You'll Love Paying for Roads That Used to be Free - Part 2.

Both articles are by Eric A. Morris a researcher at U.C.L.A.’s Institute of Transportation Studies - a sibling organization to UC Berkeley's ITS where I studied in the 1980s. He explains why charging variable tolls to use highways makes sense in clear, easy to understand language.