Bowser rejects DC congestion pricing plan eyed by mayoral hopeful

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday criticized the city’s congestion pricing proposal, calling it “deeply flawed.”

The study’s release was delayed several years after its completion in 2021, but was published by Bowser this week. She described the “congestion pricing tax scheme,” which includes a proposed $10 charge for people entering the city, as a “bad idea” and noted that it relied on traffic data from before the COVID-19 pandemic, which has proven to be “dramatically disconnected from the city’s post-pandemic realities.”