Toll lanes on LA freeways?

Rune said:
Mass is tearing out all the toll booths and installing automatic toll camera's.
Very Big Brother feeling.

By the way, putting tunels under the City worked in Boston.
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That's how all of the tolls work in Seattle. They weren't there ten years ago, so we naturally got a technological upgrade on the Northeast, where toll booths have existed for decades. I assumed you would get them whenever budgets would permit. Next time you get a new car, drive the hell out of those roads, toll-free, until your first set of plates arrive. :cof1:

We are trying to build a tunnel in Seattle. It's been hilarious hijinks thus far.
 
Rune said:
Mass is tearing out all the toll booths and installing automatic toll camera's.
Very Big Brother feeling.

By the way, putting tunels under the City worked in Boston.
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did they fix the tunnels? Last time I was up there they were still leaking ( the Big Dig)
 
Rune said:
Mass is tearing out all the toll booths and installing automatic toll camera's.
Very Big Brother feeling.

By the way, putting tunels under the City worked in Boston.
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The Big Dig was the most expensive freeway in U.S. History. Saying that it worked is a very nuanced term.
 
last time I went through Chicago I downloaded a phone app that permitted me to bypass the toll booths.....after the trip I pressed a button and paid the total of the tolls with my credit card......no traffic delays.....
 
PostmodernProphet said:
last time I went through Chicago I downloaded a phone app that permitted me to bypass the toll booths.....after the trip I pressed a button and paid the total of the tolls with my credit card......no traffic delays.....
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they're talking toll roads, not toll booths
 
Milagro said:
Here is a revolutionary thought, why don't you build more public transport?
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It's even more than that.

Build affordable mass transit.

In New York City, the costs basically compel people to choose between owning a car or taking mass transit. Most opt for the car.

Commuting from one of the border counties by mass transit can easily cost $400 or more a month.
 
Pocahontas said:
Oh, yeah, people are still mad. And my wife works in Redmond (land of Microsoft HQ), and she has heard a lot of clients express frustration.
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Traffic has always been horrid up there........ How could they even tell it was worse......

A twenty min commute is an hour & a half even in the middle of the day...
 
Bill said:
Traffic has always been horrid up there........ How could they even tell it was worse......

A twenty min commute is an hour & a half even in the middle of the day...
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I think the Puget Sound motto is "traffic could always be worse." When your hour commute becomes 90 minutes, you do start to notice.
 
Get some goddamn public transit. No transit system in a highly populated area is going to work if you have each person in the pipe taking up an entire SUV/minivan + 2-3 extra car lengths of space.
 
anatta said:
did they fix the tunnels? Last time I was up there they were still leaking ( the Big Dig)
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Why should they leak? The Channel Tunnel runs for over 23 miles and doesn't leak.

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Taft2016 said:
It's even more than that.

Build affordable mass transit.

In New York City, the costs basically compel people to choose between owning a car or taking mass transit. Most opt for the car.

Commuting from one of the border counties by mass transit can easily cost $400 or more a month.
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American mass transit costs are kind of crazy. We have pretty fast mass transit in DC (if spotty and poor service), but the fares we pay are insane, some of the highest mass transit fares in the entire world.
 
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