A preliminary study recommends that five locations be explored for installation of lanes that would allow solo motorists to pay to use them
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Los Angeles Times,by Dan Weikel -November 16, 2010: -- Advancing their experiment with toll roads, Los Angeles County transportation officials are considering more projects for local freeways — including a heavily congested freeway on the Westside — that would allow solo motorists to pay to use carpool lanes... A preliminary study by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has recommended that five locations be explored in detail for the installation of high-occupancy toll lanes or so-called HOT lanes... Officials said the highways that demonstrate a strong potential for conversion to HOT lanes include: The 105 Freeway between the 405 and the 605; the 405 from the 105 to the 5 in the San Fernando Valley; the 91 from the 110 Freeway to the Orange County line; the 57 from the 60 to the Orange County Line; and the 10 between the 605 and the San Bernardino County Line... With motorists making up to 310,000 trips a day, the demonstration project, which will be evaluated to see if congestion is indeed reduced, has received a $210.6-million federal grant... The project, which is estimated to cost $332 million, is expected to be completed in late 2012... Charging solo motorists to use carpool lanes has been implemented in other states including Texas, Florida and Washington. In California, HOT lanes have been installed along the 15 Freeway in north San Diego County... (Photo from infrastructureusa.org: George CA Pasadena)
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