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I concur, it's cheaper to drive if you don't work downtown than take the metro. FOr example if I were to take public transit to my current job, it would take at least 2 hours each way, I'd pay the maximum fare both ways and pay the metro parking fee. Instead I drive, takes about 45 minutes each way, and there's free parking at work.[/quote]

Well, there you go. Driving works for you. So there's no need for the state to embark on a fiscally-dubious, environmentally-damaging highway widening/toll lane project.[/quote]

So what's the purpose of local government then? TO encourage gridlock?[/quote]

To repeat: widening the highway won't fix the gridlock (which can't be all that gridlocky, because otherwise your driving commute wouldn't work for you).

And the toll lanes especially won't. Nobody would pay to drive in the toll lanes if the "free" lanes are uncongested. Therefore, Transurban would make sure that the "free" lanes remained backed up.[/quote]

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