![]() HOT lanes on Interstate 15 through San Diego will soon extend into Riverside County Orange County has three fully priced expressways. Tolls range from 50 cents on the I-15 Express Lanes during non-peak hours to upwards of $10 for Friday solo afternoon travelers on SR-91. Some of it has already been developed. In 2014, experiments with “High Occupancy Toll,” or “HOT lanes” - where carpools travel free but solo drivers pay - became permanent on the 10 Freeway east of Los Angeles and the 110 Freeway south of downtown. A similar express lane option on State Route 91 has been expanding since it was first created in 1995, and by 2002 had “notably reduced commuting times on both the HOT and normal lanes,” according to traffic expert Anthony Downs. SCAG envisions a regional express lane network extending south from the San Fernando Valley to Orange County, and east into the Inland Empire. I don’t think there is anybody in this world who would be able to dispute that.” “We now see, through data and research and implementation in other nations, that pricing the transportation system is the best way to deal with congestion. ![]() area,” says Hasan Ikhrata, SCAG’s executive director. “We’re running out of options to deal with air pollution and congestion in the L.A. The most immediate component of the campaign, however, involves creating more priced express lanes and toll roads. Named for the average number of hours Los Angeles drivers spend in traffic jams every year (104, to be exact), the campaign floats the idea of urban “Go Zones” where bike shares, frequent public transit and, sometime in the future, shared autonomous vehicles, keep cars moving smoothly on city roads. In the wake of a widely publicized report that found that Angelenos spend more time stuck in traffic than do drivers anywhere else on earth, the six-county Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) planning agency launched “100 Hours,” a new initiative to solve the city’s traffic woes. “There’s a general consensus among people who study road congestion - if we can solve it, this is how it gets solved.” “It’s the only solution that’s ever been shown to work,” says Michael Manville, an urban planning professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. In fact, all the relevant studies agree, there’s but one way to thin congestion on the I-10 in urban Los Angeles - or any other clogged urban artery: Make drivers pay for using it. ![]() (This may be the only application of Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s novel interpretation of supply and demand.) A carpool lane or road expansion would likely fail as well, due to a phenomenon known as “ triple convergence”: When you make more room on a roadway, peak-hour drivers who would otherwise have detoured, taken the bus or left earlier, show up to fill it. A light rail line paralleling the freeway has done little to help, despite exceeding rider estimates. on any weekday evening, Interstate 10 from Santa Monica to downtown Los Angeles is the fifth most crowded stretch of road in the United States. This article originally appeared on Capital & Main.Īt 6 p.m.
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