I’m so over having ITS wankers demonstrating yet another scrap of flawed methodology when the answer is sitting on their faces:

TOLL ALL THE LANES ALL THE TIME, EXCEPT…retain NO TOLL 3+ passenger carpool (HOV)/ Express bus lanes (sorry, no so-called “clean air vehicles” in the HOV lanes, unless they’re carrying 3+ people).
#There is a maximum reduction in SOV traffic
#Carpooling rewards are maximized
#Express buses that are faster than driving during peak hours.
#More $$ to pay for road improvements spread out over more vehicles.

The biggest financial burden on the poor is having to own a car at all, or more cars than they need.
An overall road toll allows more mobility to more people, not more cars.
It makes transit more feasible to more people.

You’re welcome.

Yes, anyone who really cares for the poor should be working to make walking, cycling or public transit the fastest, easiest and most convenient way of going from A to B. A car-biased transportation system causes extreme hardship for poor people.

Better yet, create direct pricing on every mile of roadway in the entire county. Dynamically price everything based on demand. On top of this dynamically priced road fee, add an additional pollution fee based on the vehicles emissions and neighborhood air quality. At this point, every vehicle pays a road use and environmental damage fee. The entire system will adjust to provide the correct vehicles for the correct roadways at the correct price. There will be a mixture of cars, shuttles, buses. It will then be very obvious where rail lines should be added as road pricing of some corridors may become so high that rail will become price competitive. You will end up with huge time savings, considerably less pollution, and overall economic savings and better land use choices. The current way we use roads is a failure.