At long last, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has broken his legendary silence on congestion pricing — and said, more or less, "Don't blame the feds!"
Federal regulators want local governments to track transportation sector emissions — but they can't do much to force communities to reduce those emissions, never mind doing so in ways that would address the other damages of car dependency, experts say.
In this clarion call op-ed, Charles Komanoff writes an open letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation secretary demanding action on congestion pricing.