#Los angeles freeway express lanes how to#
"We have a huge amount of demand, and we are struggling to figure out how to manage that demand," said Genevieve Guiliano, a transportation policy expert at USC. On the 10 Freeway, average rush hour traffic in the free lanes slowed nearly 10 miles an hour during a one-year period ending in September. Toll lanes were meant to ease congestion for all drivers, but they haven't always done that. Commuters pay an average of $9.01 to travel the 11 miles of toll lanes on the 110 Freeway, and $7.30 to drive the 14 miles of toll lanes on the 10 Freeway, according to Metro.
Toll prices currently vary from $.25 to $1.40 per mile, depending on the heaviness of traffic. "They want an opportunity to tweak the system and see if they can't rectify it," Jager said. If closing the lanes down to solo drivers, who make up one third of toll lane cars, doesn't work, the agency will consider increasing the per-mile toll limit, probably in the fall, according to Metro spokesman Rick Jager.
That recent tweak is part of Metro's rejiggering of a few variables to speed things up. Toll lanes on the 110 Freeway have slowed so much that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is closing them to solo drivers for up to 30 minutes during morning rush hour. Los Angeles' FasTrak freeway lanes have become less so - and they might get pricier. A segment for KCET's award-winning TV show "SoCal Connected" has been produced in tandem with this story.
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