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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP (and many other Nova residents) have just learned a very powerful, yet basic, economic lesson: everything has a quantifiable value. Your commute has a cost that is imposed on your state and the Virginia taxpayers. And now you are being assessed a price for that commute - either time or money.

I predict that many behavioral economists will be studying the HOT lane data in the next few years. It's a treasure trove of interesting findings.
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What is special about my commute that it I should be charged SO much more than other resident taxpayers?[/quote]

You commute on a highway that was already off limits at peak to single occupant vehicles.  Ergo its possible to convert to HOT lanes without actually charging anyone who had the legal right to use it previously.  No other road in the region is like that.

How DID you use it previously?  If you were not a carpooler, what were you doing on I66 before the tolling began? [/quote] hybrid exemption or avoid restricted hours. [/quote]

Hybrid exemption was such a shame. People were grandfathered driving hybrid Escalades while more efficient conventional cars, New hybrids, and all electrics were not granted HOV exception.

If they had continued exception enrollment, with whom growing hybrid/electric fleet, it would have quickly turned into parking lot. [/quote]

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