Cordon-based congestion pricing reliably and durably reduces vehicle traffic entering the charged zone, provided the charge is set at a meaningful level and exemptions are kept narrow.

Three independent implementations across different cities, legal systems, and decades converge on the same directional result: a meaningful cordon charge reduces zone traffic. London's partial erosion identifies the boundary condition (charge level and exemption breadth); it does not contradict the generalization.

• New York City's Central Business District tolling cut vehicles entering the zone by about 11% — roughly 27 million fewer vehicles — in its first year beginning January 2025.
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  NYC congestion pricing first-anniversary report

  27 million fewer vehicles entered the zone in year one, an 11% reduction, about 73,000 fewer per day.

  https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/less-traffic-better-transit-its-first-anniversary-governor-hochul-celebrates-transformational
• Stockholm's cordon charge cut cordon-crossing traffic by roughly 20% from 2006; the reduction has held for over fifteen years and, once external factors are controlled for, has if anything strengthened slightly over time.
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  Stockholm Congestion Pricing

  After a trial and referendum the ~20% traffic reduction held constant since 2007; removing the charge during the trial gap returned congestion to near baseline.

  https://toolsofchange.com/en/case-studies/detail/670/
• London's central charge produced sizeable within-zone traffic reductions after 2003, but the effect eroded over time and was blunted where exemptions (notably for diesel vehicles) were broad, showing the reduction is real but design-sensitive.
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  Congestion Charging in London (case study)

  Early-2000s reductions were significant but leveled off as drivers adopted avoidance strategies.

  https://uta.pressbooks.pub/oertgreentransport/chapter/chapter-4-case-study-ii-congestion-charging-in-london-the-western-expansion/

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