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91 FREEWAY EXPRESS LANES MOTORCYCLES DRIVERS

91 FREEWAY EXPRESS LANES MOTORCYCLES DRIVERS

Orange County Transportation Authority board chair Lisa Bartlett said the new sticker option may encourage drivers to use the Express Lanes more often. 1 will be charged $5 for a sticker transponder or $15 for a switchable transponder that lets drivers indicate how many people are in the vehicle so they can use HOV lanes on other roadways.

Other changes include the elimination of a $35-$50 deposit for each transponder for customers who open a new account in cash.Īll account holders will be grandfathered into their plans.Įxisting customers will begin receiving sticker transponders for every vehicle listed on their account in February at no cost.

Account holders will be asked to switch to one of the remaining plans.

The Express Club Plan will be eliminated.

Travel on the Orange County and the Riverside County segments of the 91 count as two trips. As an incentive, customers enrolled in the plan will receive a $1 discount on all tolled trips after 30 trips.

The monthly fee for the Standard Plan – the most popular – will be reduced from a $7 minimum for each transponder associated with an account to $2 per account.

The Convenience Plan will eliminate a one-time $75 fee for each transponder listed on an account to a one-time fee of $100 for each account for new customers.

Some of the changes to the Express Lanes plans are: The most savings will be for accounts with multiple transponders. Both agencies will move from charging customers a per-transponder fee to one fee per account. Staff Writer Brian Rokos contributed to this story.“We wanted to simplify and make our plans more competitive (and) increase the number of transponders in circulation while maintaining the financial integrity of the 91 Express Lanes,” Kirk Avila, general manager of the Orange County Transportation Authority’s Express Lanes Programs, said at a meeting this week of the governing board, which approved the changes.Īs of Tuesday, 210,000 transponders were tied to 140,000 Express Lane accounts, Avila said.

Completed electrical connections and testing of the tolling system.

Installed the delineators to separate the 91 Express Lanes from general purpose lanes.

Restriped the roadway to allow motorists to enter and exit the new lanes.

Completed the widening of the Lincoln Avenue Bridge.

Reinstated two-way travel across the Maple Bridge.

Westbound Maple Street off-ramp reopened.

“We didn’t see any of that this morning.”Ī news release Monday morning from the Riverside County Transportation Commission listed the work that had been completed during the weekend: “There are times when it backs up past the 15 (Freeway) and to McKinley (Street),” he said. Tolls for using the Express Lanes vary and can range from $1.55 up to $10.45 depending on time of day and day of the week, according to .ĭespite the morning gridlock, Standiford said this morning’s traffic was an improvement. Related story: In spite of fixes, some 91 Freeway commuters dubious.“There are a steady stream of cars on the Express Lanes, and the mainline of the freeway is still slow due to rush hour traffic.” “If people use the Express Lanes, that will take some cars off the mainline and should improve traffic,” Standiford said. John Standiford, deputy executive director for Riverside County Transportation Commission, said Monday he was aware of the slowing on the westbound lanes but hoped motorists would take advantage of the additional Express Lanes in the future. “I don’t think anything will make it better.” If she were to take the 91 Freeway for the less than 10 miles directly to work, she said it would take her about 30 minutes compared to the 15 to 20 minutes using her detour. Q & A: What lies ahead for 91 Freeway commuters?.Kelley, who lives in near Van Buren Boulevard in Riverside, says she takes the northbound 15 Freeway then navigates back streets to get to work. “I’m not surprised,” said Tosha Kelley, a clerk at the ARCO gas station on Lincoln Avenue south of the 91 Freeway. Evans had an Express Lane Pass but said the hardest part of his commute was McKinley Street to the old toll road entrance near Serfas Club Drive and then beginning near Green River Drive to the 15 Freeway for his drive home.īy 5 a.m., westbound traffic in the non-toll lanes was already clogged up, starting to slow at Lincoln Avenue and coming to a crawl by Serfas Club Drive.