Things that are more inequitable than road pricing

It takes a special combination of myopia and tunnel vision to look at the prospect of congestion pricing anything other than a minor blip on a system of transportation finance that is systematically unfair to the poor and those who don’t own (or can’t afford) car. Akron city residents tend to be poorer and have low rates of car ownership, so they will pay for storm sewers; suburbanites in commute into Akron, and use the roads and surface parking lots that create the runoff, and who have higher incomes, won’t pay. Poor households both have much lower rates of car ownership, and are far less likely to purchase new vehicles; most can only afford used vehicles, for which tax credits are not available.

Source: cityobservatory.org