VA Columnist Rips HOT/HOV Lanes and the “Trickle-Down Theory of Traffic”

The Virginian-Pilot columnist Kerry Doughtery takes on VDOT’s decision to convert Hampton Roads HOV lanes to HOT lanes, writing that, “Our highways were built with tax dollars. Much of it from the gas tax. The construction worker filling his beat-up Ford F-150 pays as much as the developer gassing up his new Mercedes. We built those lanes together. Open them up.”