> Are you advocating that the subways should be free?
But okay, I'll bite. There are some free transit systems in the US; they are much more efficient than the ones who charge (the one which I'm most familiar with added 15% more busses to their fleet when they stopped charging fares). There are obvious problems, not the least of which is that in cities free transit tends to turn into an attractive place to hang out during the day; but this is a bigger problem than Just Transit ...
But let me ask you: is the reason you're asking such a preposterous question because you think that I think that driving a car should be free? Because I don't. There, are you happy now?
I believe, however, that transportation infrastructure (along with a host of other things, all of them Good For You And Yours) ought to be significantly subsidized by the government. And that subsidization should come from progressive taxation. I believe in some quarters that makes me a "liberal" ... So I see Bloomberg's proposal -- and congestion pricing in general -- as a big step in the opposite direction.
I think I've tried to express myself simply and clearly, but if you take a statement like "We need fewer tolls rather than more" and read it as "Subways should be free" then I don't think I can help you.
/jordan