Unclogging the 15 Freeway

We all know the 15 Freeway can be a slow route to Las Vegas. But the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reports some radical ideas are being talked about to unclog the bottleneck. Tolls coming?:

During its meeting Tuesday, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors will make recommendations on two state bills that could alleviate traffic on the 15 Freeway. The first, Assembly Bill 1954, would give the Riverside County Transportation Commission the authority to develop high-occupancy toll lanes on the 15 Freeway. "We need to explore all the options. That is, new lanes rather than changing existing lanes into the high-occupancy toll lanes," said county spokesman Ray Smith. The proposed project would create an additional two high-occupancy lanes in the median of the 15 Freeway from the San Bernardino County line to California Highway 74 in Lake Elsinore. The bill also includes a proposal to directly connect the new high-occupancy lanes to the 91 Freeway and the extension of the 91 Express Lane. According to a report to the board, only one lane, each way, could have been built simply using sales-tax revenues.