[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[ClearCase_guy]

Not guilty on account of HOTness!

[22202NOVA]

I’m all for HOT lanes. Why should roads be restricted to 2 or 3, or sometimes even 4, when I’m willing to pay to use the roads for my convenience? It’s the beauty of the free market.

[Carry_Okie]

Ah yes, drivers say, we pay for those streets and highways and their maintenance through our taxes. So do all those who don’t drive. But just as transit riders must pay to ride the bus, drivers must pay to use the roads and highways.

Um, GAS taxes paid for the roads, but then, a committed fascist doesn't need a justification to be true, especially when he can follow it up with slander!

Despite the historic sense of entitlement that informs car culture in Ontario, HOT lanes mark the start of a more democratic and equitable approach to the sharing of public resources.

Some are more equitable than others of course. I'm sure the bureaucrats will get their road use funded out of the public treasury. After all, they are "essential" personnel.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Though numerous Torontonians still believe what’s best for the car is best for Toronto, they tend to be old, sclerotic and no longer capable of change. They, too, shall pass. As will the tyranny of the automobile.

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Did anyone else read this, as them looking forward to older people dying off??? Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but, calling people old and sclerotic and saying they too shall pass, meaning pass on, meaning die and no longer have input into public policy decisions, strikes me as a bridge too far.

[Lazamataz]

“When a new road opens,” says Transport Futures founder Martin Collier, “people assume they can use it for free."

What a horrible assumption! It's not like they already paid for it with gasoline or other taxes!!!

Oh, wait...

[Gay State Conservative]

A couple of years ago I took a short cut through Ontario driving from Detroit to Buffalo.While driving on one of their "Interstates" (IIRC it was Route 401) there were several large signs saying that if you exceeded the speed limit by a certain amount (can't recall exact figures) you'd be fined $10,000 and your car would be seized.

I'd avoid those new lanes and stick to 60 MPH so as to avoid those penalties.

[Squawk 8888]

Canada Ping!

[Impy]

“In the U.S.,” Collier notes, “low-income drivers are the most supportive of HOT because they’re the ones who are usually stuck in traffic.”

BS.