Leaders still have the HOTs to build toll lanes on I-405

rookietrucker · Nov 11, 2010

Leaders still have the HOTs to build toll lanes on I-405

Fearing congestion more than recession, the Washington State Department of Transportation and suburban elected officials continue working on plans to widen Interstate 405 and Highway 167 -- with help from tolls. The plan relies on income from future "HOT-3" lanes, meaning high-occupancy or toll. A car with at least three people aboard could enter carpool lanes for free, while others would pay a toll that rises in busy traffic and falls in light traffic, similar to the experimental HOT-2 lanes on Highway 167 now.

Gas tax increases in the 2000s could supply only one-fifth the money needed to fully expand the 40-mile Eastside Corridor from Lynnwood to Algona. So a panel of outside experts gave DOT toll advice at a meeting Wednesday in Kirkland. "Consider the term 'user fees' instead of tolls," was one idea, to help the political marketing.
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Unreconstructed · Nov 11, 2010

The more lanes you build, the more people move there. You can never win.

JimDriv3r · Nov 12, 2010

Ugh, that entire Seattle metro area is a depressing ######## anyway. Unless the revenue for tolls will actually be used to improve the highway conditions, this is nothing but another toll scam.

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