Unless they put in left hand carpool exits it's not going to get better for any of us Bellevue to Kirkland commuters. AND before all you people start saying we should use those lanes and pay I say be careful what you wish for. Just FYI if we DO start paying watch us stop your 70MPH progress dead when we try to exit into GRIDLOCK, in the one block area provided, to get off at our Kirkland Exits. HELLO to a major HOV jam and massive car accidents. I almost got rear ended 3 times today from hard stops due to the merging.
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Nick DOnofrio
11 years ago
This is causing more congestion than solution like they had hoped. Totally not worth it.
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Tobin
11 years ago
Revision is needed
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Mike huff
11 years ago
Typical government rip off plans.
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Margaret Stockton
11 years ago
Remove tolls on 405 - we already paid for it.
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Davis
11 years ago
Toll Nation
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Adam Bressler
11 years ago
Disgusted by 1/3 of the revenue goes to a company in TX. The lane must average 45 MPH in order for WSDOT to continue to get federal funding. So if the tolls lanes are slowing they wil jack up the price to get commuters out of the lane to ease flow. This policy is what bugs me the most. Side street and other freeway commutes are more congested after the tolls was active. Its destroying the infrastructure we have built decades on end. This is a system that sucks the money out of WA state citizens pockets for no benefit to the WA community.
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Holly hubbell
11 years ago
I thought the idea behind Hov lanes were to free up traffic not cause more because people cannot afford to pay out more money than we already do.
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jibran
11 years ago
its expensive
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Carrie O'Keefe
11 years ago
kenmore resident who hates our transportation changes over the last 5 yrs!!
Nine percent higher volume due to 520 tolling & now what??!!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Cannot afford to add another bill as single mom
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Alexa Russo
11 years ago
First they charge to build the road, charge for tabs, now they want to charge to drive on the road we payed to build.
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Matt Moore
11 years ago
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We already have the highest gas tax in the country, why would we want to pay more just to drive on roads we already paid for. Not to mention the congestions is worse than before construction started.. I don't remember voting to approve this tax!
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Dalene Johnson
11 years ago
Give the roads back to the people who have paid for them over and over again.
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Taylor Wickman
11 years ago
It's rediculous that a majority of the money from the tolls in not going back into the state. This needs to stop!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
Help traffic - stop bolstering the general fund.
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Jocelyn Nadir
11 years ago
No!!!
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Tina Climaco
11 years ago
The toll lanes are crazy stupid it only makes more traffic for everyone else.
Unless they put in left hand carpool exits it's not going to get better for any of us Bellevue to Kirkland commuters. AND before all you people start saying we should use those lanes and pay I say be careful what you wish for. Just FYI if we DO start paying watch us stop your 70MPH progress dead when we try to exit into GRIDLOCK, in the one block area provided, to get off at our Kirkland Exits. HELLO to a major HOV jam and massive car accidents. I almost got rear ended 3 times today from hard stops due to the merging.
This is causing more congestion than solution like they had hoped. Totally not worth it.
Revision is needed
Typical government rip off plans.
Remove tolls on 405 - we already paid for it.
Toll Nation
Disgusted by 1/3 of the revenue goes to a company in TX. The lane must average 45 MPH in order for WSDOT to continue to get federal funding. So if the tolls lanes are slowing they wil jack up the price to get commuters out of the lane to ease flow. This policy is what bugs me the most. Side street and other freeway commutes are more congested after the tolls was active. Its destroying the infrastructure we have built decades on end. This is a system that sucks the money out of WA state citizens pockets for no benefit to the WA community.
I thought the idea behind Hov lanes were to free up traffic not cause more because people cannot afford to pay out more money than we already do.
its expensive
kenmore resident who hates our transportation changes over the last 5 yrs!! Nine percent higher volume due to 520 tolling & now what??!!
Cannot afford to add another bill as single mom
First they charge to build the road, charge for tabs, now they want to charge to drive on the road we payed to build.
We already have the highest gas tax in the country, why would we want to pay more just to drive on roads we already paid for. Not to mention the congestions is worse than before construction started.. I don't remember voting to approve this tax!
Give the roads back to the people who have paid for them over and over again.
It's rediculous that a majority of the money from the tolls in not going back into the state. This needs to stop!
Help traffic - stop bolstering the general fund.
No!!!
The toll lanes are crazy stupid it only makes more traffic for everyone else.
Hurts small business and for the rich!
Open more commuter lanes, not take them away!