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10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder County to offe... · 0 replies · +1 points

Actually, to make the paths more safe we need fewer people per mile of path (less path congestion). If Boulder has more and more people, it means we need more and more paths. ;-)

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder admits errors ... · 0 replies · +1 points

mis-direction.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder admits errors ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Well, the lane is "safer" now, no need for a helmet, eh!?!

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder admits errors ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Vehicular traffic is down on Folsom because there is only one lane now where there used to be 2 (at least).

Take a pipe and cut its size in half and I guarantee you there will be less water moving through that pipe (assuming the maximum speed of the water was not increased).

A better measure would be cars per lane per day. I am guessing that number didn't go down.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tolls begin Wednesday ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for that! I forgot about those.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tolls begin Wednesday ... · 1 reply · +3 points

With all the lanes moving at a crawl, vehicles won't pass through the license plate readers fast enough to make the fees collected worth anything. I am suggesting that if everyone used all three lanes all the time (at least during rush hour) the whole system falls apart. There is no guaranteed minimum time to Boulder, there aren't enough fees collected to support the maintenance, there's no way cops can get out there and pull enough people over to free up the toll lane...it just wouldn't work. Exactly like it doesn't work now (during rush hour).

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tolls begin Wednesday ... · 2 replies · +34 points

Until the toll lane is complete to Boulder (and maybe even after that), there will be a point at which traffic in the toll lane must merge with traffic in the other two lanes. This merge point will cause a backup in the toll lane whose length is determined by the amount of vehicles on the road (worse/longer back up at rush hour). So, a lot of people might pay to use the lane, only to find they spend the last mile or two of it in stop-and-go traffic waiting to merge back with the traffic in the free lanes. Even after such time when the toll lane goes all the way to Boulder, there will still always be a point at which everyone can use all lanes. Vehicles in the toll lane will have to merge in and this will create a backup in the toll lane itself.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tolls begin Wednesday ... · 0 replies · +8 points

Some of the transponders that I have seen are housed in a metal lined box. To 'enable' the transponder, one simply rotates the unit out of the metal lined box. Rotate the unit back into the metal lined box to disable it (shield it from the sensors). True, the onus is on the driver to do the right thing at the right time.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tolls begin Wednesday ... · 5 replies · +18 points

Actually, the solution is for everyone to drive in the HOV3 lanes. They can't possibly pull over enough people to make the system work like they want.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tolls begin Wednesday ... · 4 replies · +77 points

"...which means carpool drivers must purchase new switchable transponders to travel for free."

Which means they are not really traveling "for free."

Why couldn't the transponders be given out for free? This is like the credit card companies making me buy the credit card itself before I can use it to make purchases.

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