So the lefty idea that a HOT lane can be used FREELY if there are several folks in the vehicle, but for someone to pay to use it is “richy rich”? Insane. I use toll roads if I want to - depending upon the time requirements and location of the tolls - If we are near ghetto I will pay anything to be up on those toll roads rather than near traffic lights and corners..... but that is my choice and it doesn’t surprise me that someone would decide that we can’t have that choice because it is unfair the the unwashed
Ugh I should have proofread - poor sentence structure, sorry - but you got what I was writing
But Jonathan V. Last is ostensibly a conservative, writing for the Weekly Standard. So what i don’t get, is the conservative case AGAINST HOT lanes. We found the article singularly unpersuasive. The cover photo for the story, had the HOT lanes and then a sign saying RIFF RAFF with an arrow to the regular lanes. LOL!!!He also says in the article that no one ROUTINELY uses the HOT lanes, which is untrue. I def do. the entrance to the HOT lane of the beltway going east is much closer to my house, so i routinely use that, instead of going out of my way, to go to the regular lanes, where i will sit in traffic. I have to believe that if we use it routinely others do too, bc we are not wearing monocles and throwing $$ out of the windows. But xhub does have a lexus, so there you go.