Federal Highway Law Re Hybrid Exemption

Bob, Guess you need to have everyone agree with your specific start/stop points. It would be interesting to see if others are averaging 45 mph from the time they enter express lanes to time they exit them. Hard to reconcile with the 75+ mph on I-395 -- would need to be mega slow the rest of the way.

Bob - you said that before Feds got onboard with ANY law. So, no, you are wrong again. This fall under State jurisdiction, and alway has. Sort of like tolls, you know...

This, on funding for interstate highways, from Wikipedia.com:

"While Interstate Highways usually receive substantial federal funding and comply to federal standards, they are owned, built, and operated by the states in which they are located. The only exception is the federally owned Woodrow Wilson Bridge on the Capital Beltway (I-95/I-495). About 56% of the construction and maintenance costs are funded through user fees, primarily gasoline taxes, collected by states and the federal government, and tolls collected on toll roads and bridges. The rest of the costs are borne by the federal budget."

And another note that may explain how I95/395 has been manipulated into an HOT road; could it be that the Feds are BEHIND it (same source):

"The dominant role of the federal government in road finance has enabled it to achieve legislative goals that fall outside its power to regulate interstate commerce as enumerated in the federal Constitution. By threatening to withhold highway funds, the federal government has been able to stimulate state legislatures to pass a variety of laws. Although some object on the ground that this infringes on states' rights, the Supreme Court has upheld the practice as a permissible use of the Constitution's Commerce Clause. Critics maintain that using highway dollars in this fashion upsets the balance between federal and states rights in favor of the federal government, and effectively holds funds as ransom in order to coerce state governments into passing laws that would not have otherwise been introduced. Some have even argued that the current arrangement is unconstitutional." "Any state that were to lose federal highway funding would quickly face deteriorating infrastructure, fiscal impoverishment, or both."