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Originally Posted by JManc
The GWB does have EZ-Pass. I used it every time I drive into the city. It's just a cluster because the crush of traffic.
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Yeah but they have the ez-pass/cash tolls as well, all into one. It causes folks to stop. They all have the sensors, even the cash only lanes, but the slow down with folks not having ez-pass is an issue along with trucks that slow down. Likewise with those multiple merges that come back-to-back within 10 ft once your past the booths.
They make it toll-by-mail and toll booth free on the Staten Island Expressway once you cross the Verrazano and that has done wonders for that bottleneck area... well, at least until you go further in where folks that don't understand what "yield" means cause a ton of issues. The HOV lane I'd argue cases more issues than its worth. Essentially eliminates an extra lane but folks still abuse it, and so with the HOV, it forces more folks in the middle which causes issues when feeder lanes bring extra volume onto the far right lane, which everyone is trying to get out of. Its a cluster F of a design.
Volume is an issue, but I think the design adds to it. How its oriented, how the roads were designed adds into the mess.