$40 road tolls offer insight into commuter psychology
I live in Northern Virginia, and the statement &quot;People who were totally banned from a road now could now use it at its busiest time&quot; is false. People were already driving on I-66 solo during HOV-only hours, they were just counting on super lax enforcement and the law of probability falling in their favor for not getting caught. When riding in the metro in the mornings (which runs parallel to I-66 into DC for a time) you saw lots and lots and LOTS of solo commuters during HOV times.<p>I imagine now people are just switching their EZPass (toll transponder) to &quot;HOV&quot; and still driving solo, which I imagine is even harder to enforce.<p>Traffic into and out of DC to and from Northern Virginia SUCKS, it&#x27;s always sucked, and it will continue to suck probably indefinitely. There need to be more roads and more bridges across the Potomac river but there&#x27;s no logistically possible way to do so.