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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one has bought with a single person driver commute dependent on 66 for decades.  Until the tolls were added, only HOV 3 then HOV 2 were allowed.  Now people can legally drive single singleton drivers, they just have to pay.  The pay is dependent on how many people are using the road.  If you dont want to pay, you can car pool, take another route or take Metro- which were your options all along. [/quote]
This, this, this, this, this. It drove me crazy when Barbara Comstock tried to base her campaign on this a few years ago. You couldn't use the road before if you were a single driver. Now you can, but you have to pay for it, and the tolls are rarely that high. Usually if there's a Metro outage or big accident, you'll see that kind of spike, but the toll is usually between $10-25 if you're taking it the whole way.

I do agree with the PP though, it's annoying that they extended the hours, so that people who worked, say 6AM-3PM, or 9AM-6PM can no longer take advantage of non-HOV hours like you could before. Now non-HOV is before 5:30, after 9:30, before 3, and after 7.[/quote]

Isn't it also true that you have to pay the toll when accessing the Dulles Access Road?  I remember Dulles-bound traffic wasn't subject to the HOV restrictions, but I believe that went away when the HOT conversion took place.[/quote]

Yes, it looks like they removed the Dulles-bound exemption, which was probably pretty hard to enforce before unless you followed people claiming they were using it all the way to the airport. That would mostly impact ride shares/cabs though, and since they'd generally have a passenger in their vehicle, would be able to take the road for free. [/quote]

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