Congestion pricing sounds like such a bad, regressive inequitable idea that's not hitting the fundamental problems. I've thought about it for a while but it just sounds like a bad idea.

I'd rather just not let cars come into cities as opposed to putting prices on who can enter and who can't. So that's just marginally shedding off the lower income brackets onto public transit.

Eliminating parking spaces and jack up parking space prices are better to me than implementing a weird time system that would encourage commuters to just spread out their hours.

Congestion pricing suggests to me that the problem isn't driving but instead what time of day you're driving at...which isn't the problem. The problem is you're driving.

I also think it depends on the region. If the region is dominated by suburbanites like Atlanta then that would make more sense than the Bay Area whose urban core is wealthier

Im getting lots of good feedback pointing out that most prime time commuters are affluent. Though i think thats specifically into San Francisco downtown.

To be fair it is technically more regressive to support just universal toll increases vs congestion pricing but I also have difficulty understanding how it would be implemented

I'd have to read more about it. Something about it just feels ickier than universal toll and parking fee increases and harder to implement
Plus i hate means testing so. Any good papers would be nice