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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is crazy-- these tolls only work if traffic on the existing 270 sucks.  By definition the only people who will have a better commute are the ones willing to pay $20-30-- and for that we're going to spend billions to add lanes?[/quote]

If those people switch from the regular lanes, that leaves more room in the regular lanes.   But I agree that spending lots of state $ raises serious questions.[/quote]

Except it doesn’t happen. Just look at 66 and 95 in VA for evidence[/quote]

I66 has not untolled lanes, so not really comparable.

I495 lanes get pretty good use (if not quite as much as Transurban wanted).   Now Tysons has been growing, so that probably offsets the shifts from the general travel lanes to the express lanes.  I am less familiar with the I95 express lanes, but I think its similar.

Note, at least in Va, the tolls go down when there are few cars in them.  I assume they would do something similar in Md, but I am not sure.[/quote]

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