New York City achieved a significant milestone this week by finalizing the last crucial step in its decades-long endeavor to implement a comprehensive congestion pricing program.

This initiative, which seeks to reduce reliance on cars and promote mass transit usage, entails imposing tolls up to $15 a car for driving into Midtown and Lower Manhattan. 

But, could a similar strategy find success in the Bay Area?

For more, KCBS Radio's Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke with Annie Fryman, Director of Special Projects at SPUR, a nonprofit that focuses on housing and transportation.