To the Editor:

Re “Should New York Look Abroad to Get Out of Its Traffic Jam?” (news article, Feb. 27):

Pioneered by the Nobel economics laureate William Vickrey at Columbia University in the 1950s, congestion pricing is the most local of solutions to Manhattan’s traffic woes.

The fact that considering it amounts to looking abroad for “a foreign fix,” as your front-page photo caption puts it, is testament to decades of American political paralysis, particularly with regard to the deference with which we treat cars and their drivers.

JONATHAN LEVINE

ANN ARBOR, MICH.

The writer is a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan.