Legal issues surrounding roadway pricing on city streets and bridges. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1974.

Economists and transportation planners have been talking for years about congestion pricing of roads and bridges, primarily to ration traffic and secondarily to produce revenue. Little has been said about the legal issues of congestion pricing. This paper focuses on the legal issues of two schemes: placing a commuter taxi on central city streets and adjusting bridge tolls to meet congestion pricing goals.