After the eclipse, access to major roadways should have been priced according to highway capacity and demand: [W]ere there market-based, controlled access to the major roadways, access in the first hour after the eclipse could have been priced very high, and would therefore have limited access to those who really wanted to leave as soon as possible. It may even be that a toll of, say, fifty dollars may have been sufficient to convince many thousands of travelers to wait an hour or two before departing. Rather than spend fifty dollars, many might have elected to simply play card games for an hour, visit local … Continue reading The Eclipse: How Markets Could Have Prevented the “Traffic Nightmare”