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    Posted: 13 Feb 2007 at 11:38am
More allies needed.
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In an article in today's Post, they said that the General Assembly is likely to pass a photo-red law this year. The reason stated that it would probably pass is that the legislators need this to do photo enforcement of HOT lanes. In other words, if they don't pass it for red lights, then they couldn't do it for HOT lanes. The article stated that they were looking at HOT lanes as a significant source of new revenue. Bunch of paid off creeps....
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Letter in today's Fredericksburg paper:
Right on.
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This is regarding an op-ed by Ken Daley and Herb Morgan [I-95 commuters, take heart; our HOT project is on the way, Nov. 21].

It's a glorified ad from the firm chosen to construct HOT lanes on I-95.

Phase I of the HOT lanes project will actually make the commute worse, much worse, as it relates to southbound HOV traffic.

I travel the HOV lanes each day from Fredericksburg to Alexandria. What is VDOT thinking concerning the HOT lanes? Where the HOV lanes end (southbound near State Route 234), traffic comes to a standstill every Friday, and sometimes on other days.


This project "re-paints" the HOV lanes to have three lanes of traffic end at Route 234? Talk about backups. How does this help the situation?

The HOV lanes are sometimes stopped for up to four miles before they tie back in to the main lanes. Traffic will be much worse if this proposal goes through.

Please, fellow commuters, write your state representatives to stop this project before it starts.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote sluDgE Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Nov 2006 at 12:42pm
Bumping above the trash.
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Alert the news media: Sponge is getting poetic!
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Isn't the part south of Dumfries going to be a single additional lane, not a barrier-separated facility like the northern part? Imagine the cost of building a whole new 2 or 3 lane bridge over the Rhappahannock! No way are they going to do that. This letter is just to placate the F'burg politicians who got all worked up about the $100M Fluor now says Virginia is going to have to pay.

The financial feasibility is about NYC money mavens underwriting this. Look at how The Washington Group underwrote the E470 in Colorado. Fact is, we are the biggest potential cash cow in the history of HOT, but only if they eliminate competition and guarantee open lanes by restricting carpools and setting exorbitant rates.

It is absolutely incredible to me that this is so f@%*ing obvious to those of us who use the road, and so unrecognized by the local media. I rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Nov 2006 at 9:54am
Yes, true. And they are also laying the groundwork for what will really happen. The northern part will be built and will have to prove profitable for many years (10-20?) before they even consider the other part.
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"It also needs to be made clear that the HOT lanes--north or south--will not be given the final go-ahead until we work through the environmental reviews, and through this finalize the scope of the construction and prove financial feasibility. To do otherwise has the potential to undermine the process of environmental review, and the associated opportunities for community input."

They are setting us up for carpools pay a toll when they use a phrase like "prove financial feasability."



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Nov 2006 at 8:10am
Letter in Free Lance Star paper re HOT lanes. I note how Fluor never submits any letters to the Potomac news because they know Dale City is the hotbed of anti HOT.


http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/112006/11212006/238004
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Bumping topic up
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