Toll Crazy!

The toll road craze The Times' Evan Halper wrote about this week seems to be spreading. In Riverside County, officials are once again talking about the idea of adding toll lanes to Interstate 15, according to the PE:

A plan to build toll lanes on Interstate 15 will get another look after Lake Elsinore's mayor questioned whether it delivers all the congestion relief possible. Mayor Bob Magee, who voted in favor of the plan in mid-December, said he still supports the idea of adding two high-occupancy toll lanes and a free, mixed-flow lane to Interstate 15 between Lake Elsinore and the San Bernardino County line. But he asked the Riverside County Transportation Commission on Wednesday to revisit the traffic and financial data upon which the plan is based to ensure the effort is doing as much as possible to handle growth in southwest Riverside County.

According to NC Times, the plan officials have been discussing would add toll lanes to the 15 between Corona and Lake Elsinore.

In Orange County, one commentator wonders whether the planned (and eventual) sunseting of the tolls on the 91 Express Lanes is such a good idea (especially if toll revenues would stay in OC).