and I love how they want people to change their travel times...like when you have a job you can just come and go as you please...maybe in govt work..
Having driven that route more times than I care to count, on company expense, I can tell you:
1)Just to get from 495 to Stafford at peak times already can cost $20. Imagine the cost of a ‘full ride’ from Balt. to Rich. Yeah.
2)All that valuable real estate currently taken by the two HOV lanes in the center could be devoted to adding 3 lanes in each direction.
3)HOV lanes only relieve congestion for those in the lanes; it doesn’t seem to affect the other shlumpfs much. So how is this anything other than a way to raise more money?
Face it, rich people want a way to pay their way into faster ‘service’, whether it is their road system or checkin line at the airport. At least call it what it is.