There are a few more dimensions of inequity however that they don't really get into (one of which I am SOOO glad opponenets to Congestion Pricing don't truly understand). First, if you bring public transit into the mix, congestion pricing becomes a transfer payment from those who drive to those who take mass transit, which ends up in aggregate being an equitable transfer.

However, you also have spacial inequity. Eric is talking more about a "turnpike style" toll rather than a bridge "one time" toll. This will further raise land prices closer to the center of the city, making it more unaffordable for people who would choose to move there given the new toll.

Which is why I would say you counter that with having a bias towards expanding public transit further away from the city center, rather than closer in. The net result becomes a transfer payment from all car drivers to the poorest and least served mass transit users.

This sort of thinking was completely different when we were dealing with poorer inner cities surrounded by wealthy suburbs, but this is changing, and we have to adapt!

Ha ha. Well, since the stated goal of the "Car Czar" is to prop up the American automobile industry (i.e. increase usage of cars), it's entirely possible that it WILL have exactly the opposite effect after all, like many government programs, much like the "Drug War" has massively increase crime in the inner city and done nothing to stop people from taking drugs.

IKEA is quick to tout the subway+bus option, but it is cumbersome & slow due to the modal change and the 6-story transfer at Smith & 9th.

Especially on weekends when most people desire a trip to IKEA to prep their weekend projects, cutting Saturday AM ferry service rewards those filling the parking lot.

The "green zone" square area bounded by 23rd St., R St., 11th St., and K St. NW will be open only to bicycles,
pre-registered buses, and only motorists who have driver's licenses showing that they actually live in the restricted zone
and have appropriate permits. (The green zone area extends to some other areas, you can see on the map I liked to at the bottom)

So the Green Zone is pretty much going to be a bicyle free-for-all which is very exciting...
Normally almost all of the cars are from outside of DC, and if they are from DC they are from outside the downtown area.

Bike around downtown DC without all those cars!!!!

Valet on the North end is at 16th and K St., and there's another one on the South end.

Just watch out for those coach buses on the larger streets. (they have huge blind spots).

You can walk your bicycle, but not actually ride it, in the area around GW University, between 23rd St, K St, 18th St., and Constitution Ave.
This would be a great location to lock a bike up once the bike valet fills up (it holds only 1000 bikes, for 3 million people).

You can not bring any bicycles into the hard security zone, or anything else whatsoever.

WABA put out this great map!
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116706197888210191894.00045c99ce5e0c584a191&ll=38.881412,-77.004547&spn=0.241602,0.341949&z=11