Article: WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SEES HOPEFUL SIGNS IN FIRST WEEKDAY COMMUTE ON STATE ROUTE 167 HIGH OCCUPANCY TOLL LANES

The Washington state Department of Transportation issued the following news release:

Results from the Monday morning commute on SR 167 indicate that high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes increased traffic volumes in the highway's historically underused carpool lane by 10 percent with solo-drivers paying tolls that never exceeded $2. While drivers were still growing accustomed to the new rules of the road, project managers hailed the first weekday morning commute on the SR 167 HOT lanes as a success on multiple levels.

"It's going well so far," said WSDOT Urban Corridors Administrator Craig Stone. "We had a decent number of additional vehicles in the lane, and the toll didn't go beyond $2.25.

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