Caltrans Wants OUR Tax Money for Toll Lanes
Every Orange County sales taxpayer took it up the backside last month with Caltrans’ announcement that it intends to convert a general purpose lane on a 12-mile stretch of the I-405 to a TOLL LANE AFTER it’s built with $1.3 billion of OCTA Measure M2 money that was committed to NEVER be used for tolling. Caltrans then also intends to spend $400 million of funds they don’t have to also convert the existing HOV/Carpool lane to tolling. A trip from one end to the other might cost more than $12.00, or over $1/mile.
Source: OCTA. The toll lane(s) would extend from the 73 Freeway in Costa Mesa to the 605 Freeway that divides Los Alamitos from Long Beach.