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I can't leave the Bay Area fast enough!Well, you will now apparently be leaving California at a speed of no more than 55 MPH. I'll carpool with you and we'll save the toll!
Plan Bay Area 2050 meet the 19 percent reduction in per-capita greenhouse gas emissionsReduce per-capita emissions by 19% while simultaneously having open-border immigration to double the population. What's the point?
Fuck northern Virginia!
EBGuy saysCan't understand why more people aren't riding BART...
Obama's sons.
Obligatory $30 toll comment:
Fuck northern Virginia!
$30 is a bit much. Indiana Toll Road (I-80) is pretty bad if you travel the 2-3 hours across the state.
Yes, and what is with the pavement? I drove across Indiana last week on I-80 and had to endure sections of that road with an extremely load roar, and that was in a Honda Odyssey. I presume that noise is caused by grooves in the road. Maybe this is Indiana's way of getting people to slow down.
people from Indiana are not normal.
I'm actually okay with toll roads that reinvest into them and make them good roads.
WookieMan saysI'm actually okay with toll roads that reinvest into them and make them good roads.
You know that isn't going to happen.
The entire premise of “reducing greenhouse gas” is fake; the real purpose is to invent a new pretext for a new way to tax people.
I know a guy who was up in Santa Cruz County and regional government planning, and this is how he and his ilk thought.
You know that isn't going to happen
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission stated in the correspondence, sent to to the directors of the Bay Area’s county transportation agencies (CTAs) earlier this month, that they envision an "eventual transition to congestion pricing on all freeway lanes in corridors with robust transit options."
The letter also outlines a plan to “lower the speed limit to 55 mph on freeways to improve safety.”
According to the letter, the agency wants to eventually implement congestion pricing on all lanes of many, if not most, Bay Area freeways.
Express lanes — which require tolls for those not in a carpool or on public transpiration — are currently being added to Highway 101 in San Mateo County. The MTC's letter states that “express lanes can be a stepping stone to more extensive congestion pricing strategies.”
"The purpose of the email is to solicit the CTA's support for the Plan Bay Area 2050 Blueprint strategies as a package." MTC Assistant Director of Communications John Goodwin told SFGATE, "This package is likely to include all-lane tolling in select freeway corridors strictly as a planning assumption in order to help the final Plan Bay Area 2050 meet the 19 percent reduction in per-capita greenhouse gas emissions mandated by state law."
https://www.sfgate.com/driving/article/Tolls-coming-to-many-if-not-most-Bay-Area-freeways-15492804.php