Would you pay $8 a day to skip traffic, or is that just a tax on people who can't work from home? I ask because Jakarta's new ERP zones charge exactly that during peak hours, and early data shows car volumes dropped 12% — but motorbikes barely moved. My cousin switched to a $1.40 bus route, but her commute still takes 90 minutes each way. Sweden's congestion tax cut car traffic 20% and funded rail, yet Stockholm voters kept it only after the revenue was ring-fenced. Is congestion pricing a real fix for urban traffic, or does it mostly shuffle who gets stuck in the jam?