Transportation secretary: Tolls are road to Florida's transportation future

[thelakelander]

I-295 lexus lanes today, perhaps the Mathews Bridge tomorrow.

Ananth Prasad knows Jacksonville well from his time working as an engineer in the Florida Department of Transportation’s Lake City office.

So Prasad, now the state’s secretary of transportation, expected mixed feelings when the state announced last week it would widen three sections of Interstate 295, and turn those new lanes into tolled express lanes.

full article: http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-06-19/story/transportation-secretary-tolls-are-road-floridas-transportation-future

[tufsu1]

you know Lake, they really don't like it when people call them lexus lanes

[cline]

Bourgeois lanes?

[mtraininjax]

Well, you could always walk or bike to work.....