What do you think about congestion pricing to end gridlock?

Old-timer Southern California drivers will tell you of taking an afternoon rush-hour cruise from the Balboa Peninsula to Santa Monica involving the 405,  the 10 and PCH in 45 minutes.
Or there’s the one about the school superintendent who lived in San Pedro and made the morning drive-time ride from his home to his office in Pasadena on the 110 through downtown in half an hour.
Gen Xers and millennials laugh until the tears flow at such surely apocryphal tall tales.
And yet they are tr