Comments on: Reserving interstate lanes for the affluent

By: KL

KL — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:44:17 +0000

What’s the point of adding lanes if there are only a limited number of exits…you end up going into a bottleneck and traffic is still slow. Why don’t people stop thinking about adding lanes and think about investing money on improving and expanding MARTA or the bus system. The traffic problem is not going to be solved by adding lanes, it’s only going to delay the inevitable; the only way to solve the traffic problem is to reduce the number of cars on the street.

By: PixelDust

PixelDust — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:44:04 +0000

and while we are at it we can give them there own personal air space also. Its only money, and tax payers will always come up with it if we keep asking more from them. If the cost of the paying lanes cuts into the big wigs pockets i am sure they can cut some of it’s employees under him/her to be able to continue to afford to pay for the traffic free lane…
Leave our money alone and quit spending it for a while! Good gosh.. get a grip and open your eyes. We have spent enough. If it takes hours to get to work, leave earlier and have time to get there…not build more roads causing us to work more hours to pay the taxes… my pockets are not any deeper than they were 20 years ago, and i have nothing left to give!

By: PixelDust

PixelDust — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:38:11 +0000

if we all worked round the clock people driving from here to there would be more spread out. If off days were not just weekends so that events were held at all times of day/night and week we would not have such jam ups of everyone trying to get to one place all at same time. But who wants to work all times of night and weekends? Not the corporate big wigs, and they don’t want to have to drive with everyone else either, lets just buy them a helicopter to get to and from work in and be done with it.

By: PixelDust

PixelDust — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:32:36 +0000

best idea would be for comapnies to have shifts that don’t start and end all at near the same time. Rush hour would just be a drive to hour. If not every guy/gal that works had to be at work at the same time we would not have this mess we have. No matter how many lanes you put in, your still going to have rush hour traffic!

By: Road Hog

Road Hog — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:25:21 +0000

Why not just post the sign that says “Whites Only This Lane” and be done with it?

By: rich

rich — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:23:53 +0000

Protest the HOT lane. Drive 55!! (in it)!!

By: uga_b

uga_b — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:36:41 +0000

Economically speaking, it costs more for higher salaried people to be stuck in traffic. Lines are sometimes used to offset cheaper prices.

In the end this is just another government revenue grab, which Bookman should ultimately support as a rule.

By: Ragnar Danneskjöld

Ragnar Danneskjöld — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:47:33 +0000

I think we would all agree that an interstate lane for the affluent is morally wrong, as it is effectively a self-imposed tax on the rich, much as the Georgia lottery is a self-imposed tax on the mentally deficient.

By: Neoconservative

Neoconservative — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:35:48 +0000

I think we should have a fast left wing lane and a fast right wing lane. That would make independents slow lanes make up their minds–mabe!

By: Robyn

Robyn — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:00:21 +0000

The affluent pay more than their share in this country. The freeloaders pay little to none. Let them take the long way and stay out the way of the producers.