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If you want to limit congestion, price congestion.

Don't limit taxis, the right to drive people, the right to drive a car ending with a particular license plate number, or the amount of fuel available (all have been tried to reduce traffic) -- just make the roads themselves cost more when there are more cars on them, and make the roads cost less when there aren't.




And here I thought you were going to propose a solution? The implementation of "make the roads themselves cost more" is empirically non-trivial.



Lets get everyone on Fastrak and see how they like it :P




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