tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979080978017564010.post6409819490558083512..comments2024-03-27T02:14:39.904-07:00Comments on Inland Empire Transit Talking Points: High Occupancy Toll Lanes sprouting all over the USAA Better Inland Empirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15626446356006938988noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979080978017564010.post-79030176903921513042015-01-11T16:27:22.481-08:002015-01-11T16:27:22.481-08:00Tolls and congestion pricing threaten to ghettoize...Tolls and congestion pricing threaten to ghettoize fixed-guideway systems, and that outcome would be untenable from a land-use perspective. Economic sustainability depends on breaking apart geographic concentrations of poverty and integrating populations by socioeconomic class. High-quality transit systems that appeal to rich, poor, and middle class alike are essential to those processes.<br /><br />Variable speed limits should, instead, keep freeways free and allow transit to better compete on travel time, instead of price.<br /><br />Building any new highway lanes is a mistake. Instead, some existing lanes should be converted to tollways and dedicated to use by trucks and buses exclusively.<br /><br />Lastly, we should be converting more grade-separated and limited-access highway segments to boulevards.Pragmatic Idealisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04255511952763116962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3979080978017564010.post-23795489831125592142015-01-09T09:52:06.098-08:002015-01-09T09:52:06.098-08:00They need to get rid of the asinine transponder re...They need to get rid of the asinine transponder requirement.marvenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16353100816207270847noreply@blogger.com