The agencies are expecting to take an initial loss with the changes to the account plans.Įxpress Lanes account fees generate $2.4 million for the Orange County Transportation Authority annually, which is expected to be reduced to $1.17 million the first year, Avila said. I’ll just take the Express Lanes,’” she said.Ĭustomers who choose to stick with their current transponders will have until 2024 to make the switch. “If they’ve got the sticker right on their windshield and every vehicle in their family has got one, I think they’re going to be more inclined, if they hit a bump in traffic, ‘Oh I’ve got the sticker.
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Orange County Transportation Authority board chair Lisa Bartlett said the new sticker option may encourage drivers to use the Express Lanes more often. 1 will be charged $5 for a sticker transponder or $15 for a switchable transponder that lets drivers indicate how many people are in the vehicle so they can use HOV lanes on other roadways. The most savings will be for accounts with multiple transponders.Įxisting customers will begin receiving sticker transponders for every vehicle listed on their account in February at no cost. Both agencies will move from charging customers a per-transponder fee to one fee per account. “We wanted to simplify and make our plans more competitive (and) increase the number of transponders in circulation while maintaining the financial integrity of the 91 Express Lanes,” Kirk Avila, general manager of the Orange County Transportation Authority’s Express Lanes Programs, said at a meeting this week of the governing board, which approved the changes.Īs of Tuesday, 210,000 transponders were tied to 140,000 Express Lane accounts, Avila said. The Orange County Transportation Authority is using the changeover as an opportunity to make its first adjustments in more than 20 years to the payment plans available – Riverside adopted the same plans in 2011. The stickers are already in use in Colorado, Washington and Utah. The current transponders require batteries and cost around $13 compared with the stickers, which run less than $1 each. “Local traffic is expected to be heavy please allow extra travel time,” officials wrote in a news release.ĭrivers who frequent the area can text 91REFRESH to 77222 to get continued updates on the project and closures from the Riverside County Transportation Commission.The relief provided to drivers who travel on the 91 Express Lanes to avoid traffic should soon extend to their wallets.īeginning in 2019, the Orange County Transportation Authority and Riverside County Transportation Commission, which jointly operate the toll lanes, will restructure the account plans offered as they phase out the hard-case FasTrack transponders currently issued to customers in favor of stickers. If drivers can’t avoid the area, Riverside officials recommended taking Route 60 to southbound Route 71 or 57 as a detour. The closures will include the westbound 91 Express Lanes, the westbound 91 Main Street onramp and offramp, the westbound 91 Lincoln Avenue offramp, and the westbound 91 connectors from Interstate 15. and are scheduled to reopen Monday at 5 a.m. The westbound lanes will close Friday at 10 p.m. QqRecmlrbJ- Riverside County Transportation Commission January 18, 2023 Stay informed by texting 91REFRESH to 77222. The main component of the SR-241 to SR-91 Express Lanes Connector Project is to construct a direct tolled junction linking the SR-241 Toll Roadto the 91 Express Lanes in the north to east and west to south directions. The closure will take place on all WB91 lanes from I-15 to Lincoln Ave., including the WB91 Express Lanes. The project is seeking grant funds of 125 million.
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🛑 A weekend full closure of WB91 in is scheduled for January 27-30.
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