[Virginia to tweak 66 Express Lanes pricing to address tolls that have topped $47]More commuters are carpooling, which has taken some vehicles off the road, they say. Data show that the outermost station on the Orange Line, Vienna, had no detectable change in average ridership after the toll lanes opened. The agency’s budget projects the 66 Express Lanes will yield $25.3 million in fiscal year 2019, of which $15.4 million will go to fund multimodal improvements. On the George Washington Memorial Parkway, speeds have dropped 3 percent during the morning rush in the last year — though officials won’t directly link the changes to spillover from the express lanes. He continues to take side streets in the morning but is willing to pay tolls of about $4 in the afternoon.

Source: Washington Post December 08, 2018 23:15 UTC