Against HOT Lanes Petition, Contact Info

I received back a response from Corey Stewart, chairman of BOCS. Here is his reply to my contact.

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As an outspoken advocate of HOV, fellow
commuter and slugger I have opposed HOT Lanes from the day they were
introduced and have led the BOCS in opposition to their implementation.
I hope you will continue to help me fight HOT Lanes stop the adverse
impacts they would have on the slugging system. I will continue to
oppose Hot Lanes but the only way to keep this from moving forward is
to
get all the "Slugs" to contact Governor Kaine who currently with
Chairman Connolly from Fairfax supports HOT Lanes.

--Corey

www.governor.virginia.org

Phone: (804) 786-2211
Fax: (804) 371-6351

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Here is some more important contacts:

VA Secretary of Transportation Office:

http://www.transportation.virginia.gov/OfficeInfo/contactForm.cfm

Fairfax Chairman Connolly:

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/chairman/

VA Governor Kaine Contact:

http://www.governor.virginia.gov/AboutTheGovernor/contactGovernor.cfm

Let raise a little ____!

spidermonkey

Something like this

We the undersigned strongly oppose the I-95/395 HOT lane project for the following reasons:

It should be against federal and state law to convert an existing HOV lane to HOT.

We object to the secretive nature of the Public-Private Partnership negotiations.

We object to having a private consortium control the most critical interstate system in the U.S.

There is inadequate capacity on 395 to support thousands of single occupant toll vehicles and re-striping will not add capacity due to bottlenecks.

We believe that within a short time after the lanes become operational, a move will be made to convert the HOV-3 to HOV-4 and/or begin charging tolls to carpools.

The citizens of Virginia deserve to know all of the terms of the agreement and have input into the process before the agreement is signed.

We are concerned that this system will harm HOV by crowding the corridor, and in so doing will have long term negative consequences on commute times, air pollution, and parking.

Other options should be explored including conversion of one of the regular lanes to HOV or HOT or adding a HOT lane to the regular lanes.

We must preserve the most successful HOV system in the country. We need more carpools, not single occupant cars.

Based on the posts here, I think riders and drivers who utilize the slug line would sign a petition.

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What happens if you start a petition and relatively few people sign it? Wouldn't that be worse than no petition at all?

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Well, that would be a *bad* thing but I'm not sure that it would be worse, since without some sort of intervention it is going to happen anyways, and more than likely the whole thing will be fashioned to be *against* slugs (i.e., be contractually so loose so that any changes could happen over time as the HOT lanes management deemed appropriate, whenever they deemed appropriate; that is, change the rules about 3+/motorcycles/public transportation vehicles being free, $$$, etc.).

If worse comes to worse I will attempt to craft a petition online but, as I said, writing such things is not my strength/forte' and given the advice the web site gives about crafting it properly initially being very important... I'd rather be the last chance guy to do it. I would start from some of the verbiage that Bob suggested.

IHMO, pressure must be applied very quickly!

spidermonkey

FWIW---

VDOT's HOT Lanes Project Manager contact info is:

Mr. Larry Cloyed
larry.cloyed@vdot.virginia.gov
703.313.6686

spidermonkey