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Congestion Pricing

Hi, I'm honoured to get your invitation to contribute, but I'm a bit wary of wading in to Wikipedia in an area I'm qualified in. Transport Engineering is a wide area and I'm no expert in an academic sense in congestion pricing. The orthodoxy that is being taught in universities these days is that you can't build your way out of congestion with "free to travel" roads, the roads will never be wide enough, it's a vicious cycle. On the other hand congestion is actually a healthy sign in a city that shows that the existing resources are well utilised. You might want to build more roads if the economy of the nation in which you build it will be improved after taking into all direct and externalised costs. But you'll still have congestion, if you don't you've built too much infrastructure. Anyway that is what is taught on a theoretical level, we live in a complex society not run by engineers :) Alex Sims (talk) 12:20, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

But you'll still have congestion - this is what the sources say but the admin editing the article vehemently objects to including them, which is why I asked for a professional assessment.

Thank you very much for responding. Congpric (talk) 13:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)