The point of the fluctuating toll lanes is to keep drivers out of them. If the price is high enough people will opt to use the free lanes no matter how crowded. You pay to keep moving at 60-65 mph. Too many cars go in the toll goes up. Nobody HAS to pay the toll, it’s a matter of “how much is your time worth”? Basic economics. Supply/demand I will supply you a fast lane and the price depends on how many bidders there are.
“Basic economics. Supply/demand I will supply you a fast lane and the price depends on how many bidders there are.”
They should have made that argument BEFORE they asked the taxpayers to pay for these roads in the first place. As it stands, we paid for them, we own them, we should be able to use them without getting gouged by wasteful politicians who are greedy for another way to plug their budget gaps.
Unlike the beltway and 95 there are no free lanes. There are local roads that might have become more crowded (they were crowded before). The demand pricing can't be based on traffic because there was little traffic on it all morning. I don't know what the price was based on.
>>>The point of the fluctuating toll lanes is to keep drivers out of them. If the price is high enough people will opt to use the free lanes no matter how crowded. You pay to keep moving at 60-65 mph.
Similar to how the information superhighway might work in a post net neutrality world. You can pay to drive in the HOT lane to get fast speeds from your ISP or you can pay the base rate and drive in the regular lanes that will at times be highly congested and slow.
Which would make them pointless.
The real purpose is to gouge the maximum amount of money possible from the captive population. And most of the money does not go to building or sustaining roads either.
This only works when you have a monopoly control of a market and the ability to lock out other alternatives.