Re: Tolls In Arizona, again

On Feb 7, 11:37 pm, "Jason Pawloski" <jpawlo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 7, 11:26 pm, Scott en Aztlán <scottenazt...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





"Jason Pawloski" <jpawlo...@xxxxxxxxx> said in misc.transport.road:

Tolls tolls tolls!!! Tolls tolls tolls tolls tolls tolls!

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0207hov-toll02....

Tired of watching traffic zip by you in the carpool lane? You could be
there, driving solo in the rush-hour traffic, for a fee.

A state lawmaker wants to turn the carpool lanes on Interstate 17
through Phoenix, and potentially other Arizona highways, into high-
occupancy toll lanes that would allow drivers to pay to slash time
from their morning and evening commutes.

The lanes would remain free to carpools, and the tolls would be
collected electronically.

I, for one, wouldn't pay. The problem with carpool lanes is there's
always some Sloth in a Prius or something who putters along,
obliviously trapping everyone else behind him. Now if there were
MULTIPLE toll lanes, such as the express lanres on CA-91, that is a
much better solution, since you at least have the opportunity to get
around the Sloths.
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My driving videos:http://www.geocities.com/slothkills/videos.html

Plus if there's an accident, there's like a 50-50 chance its blocking
the HOV lane. None of the AZ freeways with HOV lanes have significant
left shoulders so you're really no better off in that case.- Hide quoted text -

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Amen to that. Especially on I-17 of all freeways, where they're
proposing this whole shindig, there is absolutely no left shoulder. My
vote is to leave it as-is.

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