$35 one-way commute

An employee of the Metro Washington Council of Govnts just gave me the actual breakdown of what tolls ought to cost to inhibit congestion:
For a Lake Ridge resident, it's $35 into the city.
For a Fredericksburg resident, it's $41.21 to the city ONE WAY.

For exact numbers:
From DC to Shirlington Rd at $1.10 per mile = 4.40
From there to the beltway it's about $1 per mile, about $9
From there to Fairfax County Parkway, it's $1.60 per mile = 6.40
From there to PWC parkway, it's .80 per mile = $14.40
From there to Fredericksburg,it's .23 per mile = $6.21

Now, my milage may not be precise, but the price per mile is straight from the analysts.

I don't know about you, but we don't have $17,500 available for commuting. If too many people Slug, then the competing toll companies have mentioned they may have to charge HOVs.

How is this not a Lexus/Limo lane?

Send a letter to the editor of your newspaper. Rollison, the head of the VDOT advisory panel does not care what you think, and your elected officials have no say in the matter. At least when HOT happens, we can say we were not complacent about the decision.

This is an interesting post from about a year ago detailing HOT costs per mile.

Can anyone validate these numbers?

Validation:
If you would like the government-supplied copy of these numbers, just ask VDOT for a copy of the "September 20, 2005 Regional Traffic Analysis of the Clark/Shirley and Fluor-Transurban I-95-395 HOT Lanes Proposals by the National Captial Region Transportation Planning Board Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments", specifically, Table 1, page 8. The map and prices are there, but the specific areas were given to me via e-mail from a VDOT admin assistant.

The title of this thread is just too good to let it languish in this forum.

Can we please all realize that this will be our commute tab soon!

HOT is evil, these Pick-pocket lanes will make us poorer, only the rich-but-foolish will be able to ride in these lanes!

How soon Sludge forgets this important quote about where carpoolers stand if the HOT lane gets busy...you WILL pay the toll!

The quote from the May 2004 article in the Metro Section by Stephen Ginsberg

Virginia officials said plans for HOT lanes call for electronic
tolling at set on-and-off points. They said their main challenge is
designing a roadway that doesn't get clogged by carpoolers, as is
starting to happen on HOV lanes, so that there is room for enough
paying customers to finance the road project.

So once the road gets jammed, carpoolers get the shaft, to think otherwise is naive...