Drivers on Los Angeles Freeways May Soon Need to Pay Toll
People driving vehicles in some of the freeways in Los Angeles may soon be required to pay extra charges according to a policy said to focus on resolving existing traffic congestion.
By summer, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expected to release a blueprint for its congestion pricing scheme where people pay to drive their vehicles in city centers, said a May 30 report by Los Angeles Times. Congestion pricing will be implemented in certain high-frequency routes on freeways.
For its test program, the agency has identified three locations—the canyon streets and freeways connecting San Fernando Valley to the Los Angeles Basin, arterial streets and freeways around downtown, and an almost 16-mile stretch of the 10 Freeway between downtown and Santa Monica….