#405 FREEWAY EXPRESS BUS LANE FREE#

#405 FREEWAY EXPRESS BUS LANE FREE#

Carpools of two or more people get a free ride on the 110 on the 10, carpools must have three or more occupants during peak periods.ĭrivers who are alone in the car and enter the ExpressLanes are charged a per-mile price that starts at 25 cents and rises as congestion in the paid lanes grows worse. The lanes are free to vehicles with multiple occupants, provided they have a transponder. The 405 toll lanes will be modeled after the Expresslanes on the 110 Freeway between Exposition Park and the South Bay and the 10 Freeway between downtown and El Monte. The study will determine whether the project will need to find additional money, said Shahrzad Amiri, a Metro deputy executive officer. The toll lanes have $260 million through Measure M, available starting in 2024. Metro’s study will examine whether there is enough space in the freeway’s auxiliary areas to create a second lane for tolled trips, or whether Metro would have space to convert only the carpool lane to a single HOV lane. The widening of the 405 added a single carpool lane in each direction. Metro officials have previously said that revenue from the 405 toll lanes could be used to help fund the Sepulveda Pass rail line by creating a revenue source that Metro could borrow against. The rail project has about $5.7 billion earmarked from Measure M, the sales tax increase that county voters approved in 2016, leaving an estimated shortfall of at least $3.7 billion. The transit line, which will either be a subway or a monorail, has an estimated price tag of $9.4 billion to $13.8 billion and a tunnel as long as 13 miles through the Santa Monica Mountains. The toll lanes are being developed in parallel with a rail mega-project through the Sepulveda Pass.

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