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Community => Transportation, Mass Transit & Infrastructure => Topic started by: thelakelander on June 19, 2012, 06:30:15 AM

Title: Transportation secretary: Tolls are road to Florida's transportation future
Post by: thelakelander on June 19, 2012, 06:30:15 AM
I-295 lexus lanes today, perhaps the Mathews Bridge tomorrow.

QuoteAnanth 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
Title: Re: Transportation secretary: Tolls are road to Florida's transportation future
Post by: tufsu1 on June 19, 2012, 08:03:34 AM
you know Lake, they really don't like it when people call them lexus lanes
Title: Re: Transportation secretary: Tolls are road to Florida's transportation future
Post by: cline on June 19, 2012, 08:57:37 AM
Bourgeois lanes?
Title: Re: Transportation secretary: Tolls are road to Florida's transportation future
Post by: mtraininjax on June 19, 2012, 09:55:28 AM
Well, you could always walk or bike to work.....