Regarding the article, “Complexity for carpoolers when toll lanes come to I-405”: People with advantage and money should not receive assistance from the state, especially at the cost of reducing the established and recognized benefits of others.
Our state lawmakers are proposing carpooling commuters travelling I-405 through Bothell, Kirkland through Bellevue (along this “special” section of freeway) be disallowed the use of HOV lanes unless they increase their riders from two people to three, this in order to allow people who can pay to replace them.
HOV lanes encourage people to reduce emissions and save resources — to do the right thing by our economy and environment. Now the state proposes eliminating that concept and replacing it with the base mantra of money trumps everything?
The number of people using the HOV lane likely won’t be increased, as the number of cars and people no longer able to use the lane and decrease traffic will be just as great as the number of individuals buying this privilege — one person to a car. The traffic won’t decrease, and the number of citizens able to utilize this public resource will actually decrease. People who are trying to do the right thing, who make the effort and go out of their way to do right, will be set aside and dismissed.
Unbelievable.
Cliff Cordier
Everett
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