The thing is, the congestion pricing is both a carrot and stick in one since one if the biggest problems with transit currently is that it's stuck on congested roads which causes it to be unreliable and slow. Making improvements to those issues can't really be done without either dedicating a lot of street space to transit (which some people would also complain about) or by expensive tunneling. So you can't really say that you need to wait for transit improvements before instating congestion pricing because the congestion pricing is itself a transit improvement. So the thing it needs is already built in.
And not only would the buses run more quickly and reliably (which are huge improvements themselves for transit users) but allowing routes to run faster also enables the agency to run more service with the same number of buses and drivers. So you could have, for instance, new express shuttles that connect major terminals and downtown. That would address another major issue which is that the stops are too close together making many - particularly longer - trips far too slow.
I also used to think that you need higher order transit like rail before implementing congestion pricing, but in reality that just isn't true when you stop for a moment and actually think about it.
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