Toll lanes set for freeways by 2010's end

California

Days of free [? thought our taxes paid for these] and open roads are dimming in Los Angeles after the federal government offered $213.6 million to launch a one-year toll road pilot program by the end of 2010 in an effort to boost speeds on three sluggish freeways. With a promise to keep traffic flowing no slower than 50 mph in car-pool lanes converted to express lanes, toll lanes will straddle freeways through Pasadena and between downtown Los Angeles and east Los Angeles County...

[they're not even discussing adding more lanes, or removing all HOV lanes to maximize use. Guess there's no profit in that. Wake up CA, and tell you government to build more lane-miles or they'll be replaced. If you don't, they won't]

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