MTC: I-680 express lanes set to open in early fall

Now we get to pay to ride in lanes that we used to ride in for free. How exciting.
Take your time CALTRANS.

I just read the preceding column. Looks too complicated and formulaic for average driver to be able to keep clear as he/she is cruising down the freeway at "65" MPH. It seems to defy the KISS philosophy of "keep it simple stupid", something that my experience has lead me to believe has a lot of common sense merit. Maybe even more sensible (as in "common") would have been to take the $45 million and apply it to deferred road maintenance rather than depending on more tax dollars to be collected and mishandled by the politicians.

You can use the flex tag set on 2 or more on the San Ramon Valley 680 and not be charged. If you go from Pleasanton to San Jose you will be charged as they are on a different system. You have to cover or remove the flex tag with two or more in the car and you will not be charged. Another example of your government at work. To think we actually pay for these people to think up better ideas ??

Another example of how screwed up California is getting under the control of corrupt stupid liberals. They take our tax dollars to make a road where we have to pay to use. They make it so complicated that even carpoolers will end up paying, as I have personally experienced on 580 in the Pleasanton-Livermore area, in several occasions. No matter who you call to complain, you will end up with no answers. It appears there is no limit to the corruption of governor Brown and his gang of liberals.

Geez Frustrated - and here I thought the 'social engineering' lanes were a liberal invention, but their conversion to '1% lanes' seems rather free marketly. I guess I just didn't realize the breadth of the one-demon-fits-all philosophy.

The toll lanes are wrong & severely flawed on numerous levels:

1.) We are being charged to drive in lanes that our taxes already paid for.
This is a clear case of double taxation.

2.) No additional lanes are being constructed. Commute traffic is presently
exceeding design capacity of I-680. Charging a toll cannot change this
obvious fact. After the tolls, I-680 will still be stop/go/creeping
during commute hours.

3.) California is a one party state where huge unelected bureaucracies
continually come up with failed "solutions" that step all over the
population. I-680 tolls are simply another example of this failed
state & it's liberal idiocy.