Los Angeles County transportation officials will study whether drivers who are alone in their cars and are willing to pay a toll should have access to the 405 Freeway's carpool lane through the Sepulveda Pass.
and calls for a tunnel as long as 13 miles through the Santa Monica Mountains.
The operation of the 405 toll lanes would 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.Drivers who are alone in the car and enter the toll lanes are charged a per-mile rate that starts at 25 cents and rises as high as $2.10 as congestion in the paid lanes grows worse. The maximum total toll is $23.10 on the 110 and $29.40 on the 10.
“It’s going to identify additional right-of-way within the current footprint,” said Metro deputy executive officer Shahrzad Amiri. Ending free rides for two-person carpools would affect more than half the vehicles that use the 405’s carpool lanes during rush hour, according to a study prepared for Metro in 2016.
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