Re: Peach Pass Express Lanes.
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:22 pm
This thread makes me picture dM rollin deep in Tyler's ambahlance carpoolin their asses off.
Treefish wrote:I guess I'm that 0.01% that like it, because I have a peach pass and it only costs me $1.25 to get use that lane all the way from 285 to the end up 85N and I get to drive past all the idiots driving at 60 in the fast lanes forming rolling road blocks.
And if you're not carpooling, you wouldnt be able to use an HOV/HOT lane anyway so no real loss there. I guess it sucks if you are carpooling and want to use that lane. Also if you know you're gonna have 3 people at least in your carpool all the time, then you can have the toll thing set as continuously "free" instead of having to do it each time you're leaving the house.
Its like the bus lanes in the UK, there arent that many of them, but where there are some, everyone that's not using them are pissed at them being there.
Personally, I down with paying for the convenience of bypassing all the traffic.
Also like Cody, I go up 85N in the morning so it's not a huge bonus but its significant enough that it takes a good number of minutes off my commute, and less traffic stress to boot.
I can only imagine that if you went and got a peach pass so you can fly down 85S in the mornings, that'd be worth it.
You're rolling in the cheaper direction. It changes as they feel like it and it's god awful expensive in the morning heading south. I pay less to run through the super expensive tunnel system in Boston than they're charging down here to run in the left lane for 5 miles.
