$35 one-way commute

sludge, by the time they say carpoolers will pay, it will be a done deal, too late, finito, end of the line, all she wrote! BTW, the fee schedule will not come from VDOT. If it did, we may have some input. Fluor will set the prices based on a business case to recapture and profit from their investment in constructing the lanes.

Check previous posts on this forum that list the proposed fee schedule for your gate-to-gate tolls.

So call me naive .... VDOT's official website says HOV-3+ car pools will NOT pay a toll. Your quote says it will be a challenge to keep it that way, but it does not say carpools will definitely pay. The lanes won't be built for several years, toll technology and lessons-learned will improve over that period, and tolls plus free HOV-3 will give a bigger incentive for more car pools. That will definitely address the hybrid and other SOV exemptions that many complain about, because they will pay the SOV toll. I applaud many of you being suspicious. We need more WatchDogs, but I'm not ready to jump on the doom-&-gloom bandwagon yet. When the Commonwealth says "car pools will pay", I'll then need a seat on your wagon. Just haven't seen any hard evidence from VDOT - just website speculation -- that declares "all HOT users must pay." BTW, What's the envisioned toll from the P'gon to the Va 644 and Va 6900 HOT exits gonna be?

Not if car pools are free.[;)]

Thank you, lakeridgeresident... a year between posts -- probably a record for holding your breath.

Anyway, we owe you a big thanks, just like we owe Rollison and his committee a big kick in the....

Raymond, reviving this post may be your best contribution ever to this board. I missed it the first time because I was essentially buried under the debris of Katrina for three months.

I did manage to make the final couple of public meetings in Woodbridge on the Tool Roads. The MWCOG rep did in fact give numbers very much like this in his presentation. Rollison, the useless old has-been, didn't blink an eye because his mind was made up before he was even appointed to the council. The public meetings were a sham. He, of course, does not use I95 to commute, but heads the commission that will determine the road's fate for the next 60 years. Brilliant!

The MWCOG numbers are absolute dead-certain proof of the arguments we've been making for over a year now. How is it that the Fredericksburg paper hasn't written about this? Has anyone ever seen these MWCOG numbers printed anywhere?