Year-old 66 Express Lanes have caused shifts in commuter behavior, but not necessarily in ways officials hoped
PING.
A toll is another tax on a road you’ve already paid taxes for.
its never been about serving the public....its been about riping more tax money out of them......
same as the 405 north of Seattle......express lanes for some, while the rest struggle with increased traffic.....let alone the express traffic to get out of the express lane to an exit have to cross several lanes of traffic to get there...
We just had a road trip, FL to NC and back.
Never mind “66 in VA.” That is a mess. Try I-95.
I discovered that the new passing lane is not the left lane on a two or three lane Interstate. It is now the right lane!
Too many jerks drive the passing lane and traffic backs up causing/forcing those following to pass them on the right.
Typically the driver is doing exactly the speed limit as a “self appointed trooper.” It is unsafe at any speed.
If you are in the passing lane and NOT passing cars, get the hell over to the center or right lane, you are dangerous.
Roads for the rich. Peasants please stay to the right.
They are in the process of doing something like this in Atlanta. What Atlanta needs is a bypass with NO local access. It is a mess about 18 out of every 24 hour period.
Interstates and major roads used to have a single purpose - to move cars quickly and efficiently.
With the liberal deep state in control of more and more governments, the purpose of a highway now is to 1. Raise revenue, and 2. to modify behavior, i.e. use public transport, bicycles, walk.
The politicians of Virginia, Texas, and Florida are deep into this dual motivation, changing critical roads into tolling cash cows and drivers into leotard wearing bikers.
And big donor companies are being given 99 year control of these roads to charge any toll they want, and exempting politicians from having to do one of governments basic functions - road infrastructure. All those roads in Virginia are making billions for these companies, and millions in campaign cash for the approving politicians.
The people be damned. Stuff yourself into a Metro subway car (with also outrageous prices).
The statists have found another way to control behavior. They hate the fact that you can choose how to go somewhere. They want everyone, except themselves, to be forced to take the same transportation.
$50 bucks to drive to work one-way.
Welcome to Socialism.
Even though this is Virginia, a quote from an outgoing county council member of Mo Co comes to mind: “We’ve got to get people out of their cars.” Heard it on radio.
Traffic is made deliberately difficult to save the planet. The commie lions think they can make the need to drive disappear.
Well... DUH!
In related news: Speed bumps tend to slow down traffic.
Bkmk
Time for the hassled to CARAVAN the Express Lanes' and just OVERWHELM the system!
More DC gridlock
The goal is to get us out of cars and go where we’re told.
Monorail!
U.S. Route 50 has become unbearably jammed.
California already proved this. Waste of govt money...,and a good junk was federal
Reminds me of a Yogi Berra quip “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”