SAN FRANCISCO Move to charge toll for driving in core of downtown area

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Congestion charging -- imposing a toll on drivers in a city's downtown core -- is about take on a bureaucratic life of its own in San Francisco.

In a sign that the musing of one Board of Supervisors member is on course to become reality for Bay Area motorists, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority soon will receive $1.04 million from the Federal Highway Administration -- and add $260,000 in local funding -- to study how to implement a program similar to London's 3-year-old system of charging a flat fee to drive downtown during business hours.

They are certainly geniuses in San Francisco aren't they? When you are losing population and jobs what better way to keep the trend going than raising the cost of driving?The people who run San Francisco haven't heard that most Americans take a car to work.