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websiteapiyesterday at 7:35 PM1 replyview on HN

why wouldn't it decrease volume? presumably if it starts costing 100 bucks a day people would stop driving and take these hypothetical buses, no? of course as I mentioned I know this would never actually work for political reasons.


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zdragnartoday at 5:08 AM

Because if it is dynamically priced, people won't know until they already need to go to their destination if the tollway will be affordable.

The volume on the tollway itself may decrease, but only because drivers suddenly need to take other roads that the tollway was designed to alleviate pressure from in the first place.