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The Illinois Tollway Board on Thursday passed a $400 million plan to create "Green Lanes," a.k.a. carpool lanes, in some of the tollway's most congested areas. They hope to have the first lane done by 2010. As expected, the tolls will operate on a tiered system with solo non-hybrid drivers being charged the highest tolls. Our favorite quote on the whole thing comes from today's Sun-Times, which actually sums up the government's stance on just about everything: "But the Tollway still doesn’t know exactly where the carpool lanes are going to be or how they’re going to work." Aaaaaaaaaand SCENE!
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I like that they will be allowing higher tolls for single-occupancy vehicles. I was vehemently opposed to the "solely HOV" iteration of this, because it taken away a lane would only worsen congestion, as not enough would switch to carpooling to offset the reduction in capacity.
However, if they want to dedicate a lane to HOV, but allow all drives to use it, after paying a toll, that's gravy.
One way or another we should encourage carticipation. Price of oil is down, but that is only temporary.