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Name Method of Receipt Date Comment Support? I get upset when I take my family to LA on the weekends. Where I used to enjoy hopping on the HOV I now wait in slower traffic. Yes I know I can get some little box to put on my dash ... more big brother watching my every move. I should not 3/5/2014 have to do that. The Tax payer paid billions to get these lanes built and now they are being excluded from them. Overall, the more people that are excluded from these lanes then the more the 'other' traffic slows. A travesty environmentally, Oppose not to mention the increasing divides between the have and have-nots. I will start a campaign to raise these issues to the general LA public. Roy Erickson Email Hi, I travel the I-10 Sunday to Saturday I don't use the express lanes because they are way to expensive and a hassle to get the fastpass. Sorry I pay plenty of taxes on my gasoline and I am opposed to the additional burdens put on me to drive 3/5/2014 Oppose Leland Hamby Email on roads that I already pay for, Gary Toebben Email 3/5/2014 I cannot attend one of these hearings but I wanted you to know that the Express Lanes are great. We should have them everywhere? Support Hi, I'd like to put my 2 cents in regarding the Metro ExpressLanes. As someone who is not a regular commuter but might need to take someone, for example, from downtown LA to LAX, I feel discriminated against because of the Metro 3/5/2014 ExpressLanes system. While carpooling, I CAN'T use the CARPOOL lane because I don't want to go to the hassle and expense of getting that machine I need for the dashboard and paying in advance for such irregular use. Yet, there I am, driving Oppose with 2 or more people in the car, and not able to use the carpool lane. I'm generally an all-for-one-and-one-for-all type of person, but I feel these lanes exclude drivers/riders who are occasional carpoolers. Not fair! Linden Wadell Email Vallie Caseres Email 3/5/2014 We love the express lane and have used it frequently . It makes a huge difference for travel during rush hours. We like the flexibility of an option to use it as a solo driver and pay for this privilege if necessary. Support I don't think they're good at all. They benefit carpoolers sure but me and the wife used to use it occasionally to dodger stadium from Carson. Now we just avoid downtown LA completely as we don't think we need to have a tracker on our vehicle. So since we don't use it that much we'd be paying for it since we definitely never go to or through downtown LA more than 4 times a month. These fast track lanes have turned into nothing but "Lexus Lanes". I always thought that all 3/5/2014 Oppose the people who have paid their taxes in California for the past 50 years or so have already paid for the carpool lane as it was without the fast track junk and that it should be returned to that function. If anything why not have a Metro rail line run through the 110? It always seemed like the logical choice. Having these fasttrack/Lexus Lanes seemingly is only benefiting Metro itself. I don't like them. My neighbors don't like them. Hector Macias Email I will not attend your outreach events but at this time I do not feel the Express Lanes are helping relieve traffic and are not being fully used to their capacity. I heard on the radio that in some areas of the country people do use these express lanes and are willing to pay just to be one up on the other guy or just to get one second of time. People are funny that way but I don't think it serves the general public well if it doesn't provide the public some return for their investment. I 3/5/2014 Oppose recommend that the toll for express lanes on the 110 and 10 be changed to free diamond lanes during off peak hour traffic periods and allow any vehicle with two or more passengers to use them. Alternatively, just make them diamond lanes. Rodrigo T. Garcia Email METRO officials are attempting to convert the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes to the High Occupancy Toll (HOT) that is something going from unmanageable to insurmountable. The Los Angeles Freeway systems are and will remain clogged due to a number of factors, except for addressing one main issue the congestion could be reduced dramatically. The issue is that every car on the Freeway is not going long distance. Roughly 35% of the cars taking the Los Angeles Freeways are going less than 25 miles. The reason that so many drives choose the Freeway over surface street commuting is that Los Angeles streets are volatile, perceived unsafe driving through unfamiliar neighborhoods, unkempt potholes, and traffic light synchronization inefficiencies. Addressing this issue over High Occupancy Vehicle is strikingly more needed since no matter what METRO does in arena, by not tackling street improvement the Freeway congestion will always 3/5/2014 be. One must first improve the access streets to the Freeway. For example, every freeway is built parallel to one or more major surface streets just as Figueroa Street was the blueprint for the 110. Accordingly, Figueroa should be the most Oppose efficiently run street in the 110's locality. Unfortunately, from roughly Century boulevard to King boulevard Figueroa is for the most part a highly neglected major corridor for traffic activity in the City of Los Angeles. The positive spin-off for improving surface street management first is when the streets improve so does the commercial value of the corridor. Thereby, extending time and materials to street improvement, the High Occupancy Vehicle improvements will come about without a hitch, since those who use it will be traveling from much longer distances and have a greater need to pay the fare. No one in the Los Angeles area with light rail access or automobile privileges should ever be caught on the Freeways for commuting less than 20 miles one-way. Dean Jones Email I love the express lanes and couldn’t stand making my daily commute if I didn’t have the ability to use them. The express lanes and the 110 freeway need to be expanded south of the 91 freeway to at least Sepulveda, which is where it backs 3/5/2014 Support up every morning. I noticed that my commute time since last November suddenly and permanently increased by about 20-25% on average. I don’t know what caused this other than more people becoming aware of the lanes. Richard Goldstein Email 3/5/2014 Please keep the Fastrak going as a matter of fact make all carpool lanes Fatstrak lanes would be such a better commute I myself don't care about paying for convenience so please convert all the carpool lanes to Fastrak lanes. Support Jess Alekzandr Email I am very opposed to the continuation of the Metro ExpressLanes. The transponder does not work properly – it sometimes beeps and sometimes doesn’t during the same commute, so I end up being charged even though I have the transponder mounted in my windshield the entire commute. I have even heard it beep when my car was sitting in my garage. Because it is not being read properly, I need to check my account regularly because every time I check I have 3/5/2014 improper charges on the account. This is very frustrating, inconvenient, and time-consuming. In addition, the HOV lane seems just as congested as it was before the toll lanes were started, so I don’t see the point of going through the hassle Oppose and cost of dealing with the transponder. It seems like the toll lane is nothing but a hassle and a cost for commuters, with absolutely no benefit for us. It also is inconvenient because I know people who use the 110 freeway occasionally but not regularly, so they don’t have a transponder, but when they do use it they are not able to use the HOV lane. This doesn’t make sense to keep people out of the lane who otherwise would be able to use it. Candice Yokomizo Email The Express Lanes work well most of the time, but about once every two weeks, either my carpool partner or I have a transponder misread. We then have to go to the MetroExpressLanes website, and email a dispute. Our account always gets 3/5/2014 Neutral Glynis Williams Email credited, but it’s a pain in the bum. Marcie Miller Email 3/5/2014 Someone always gets rich and others get screwed in this nonsensical transportation nightmare in (Comment cut off in email, not a typo) Oppose It is my understanding that you are soliciting feedback on the new for-pay express lanes. In a nutshell, I am strongly against this change. I suppose there is some way for car pools to use these lanes without fees, but [candidly] the information available was rather poor. I am a phd in computer science, and am fairly good at finding information. I investigated this when it was first announced, and simply gave up. 3/5/2014 Driving on the freeway, I see these lanes virtually empty -- unused city resources THAT MYSELF AND OTHER TAXPAYERS HAVE ALREADY PAID FOR.