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6:50AM, I leave the house to attend a Technology Marketing Alliance meeting in Tyson's Corner. The topic is "Straight from the Board: Corporate Board Members Tell What They Really Want from the CMO." It is a breakfast event from 7:45AM and 10:00AM. I take the VA 267 toll road. 7:00AM, I pass the first toll booths without any problem. 7:01AM, I am sitting in bumber to bumber traffic, 10 feet passed the tolls. 7:10AM, I can still make it to Tyson's Corner by 7:45AM, right? 7:15AM, I think we moved about a mile, I can now see the HOV lanes coming out of the airport. 7:20AM, I moved 1/2 mile, maybe. I am listening to CNBC on XM Radio. They say the price of oil is rising again. I don't know about you guys, but when the price of oil gets closer to $100, I start to pull for oil. I want to see it break the record. Americans love an underdog, don't they? (Click read more to read the rest)
7:30AM, I am still in a bumber to bumber traffic. I can see Fairfax County Parkway exit now. 7:31AM, I am thinking now. Hey, why not? I have nothing else to do. There must be tens of thousands of cars in this traffic. The HOV lane immediately to my left is fairly open. Some cars zoom by. Some but not too many. Maybe hundreds, maybe few thousands. 7:35AM, The double lane HOV that comes out of the airport is wide open. Few thousands cars are using it. Wow, we are really saving the environment with this HOV idea, aren't we? Here I a sitting idly in traffic for hours along with tens of thousands of drivers. All that smoke is going up and polluting the environment. 3 lanes of HOV are fairly open and un-used. They are being patrolled by 3-4 highway patrol cars to catch the offenders. I am sure we can find better ways to leverage our police force, but we can't because we are saving the environment with our HOV lanes. 745:AM, I decided to take the Fairfax County Parkway exit and use Leesburg Pike. Maybe the side roads are open. 7:55AM, I am sitting in a bumber to bumber traffic, on Leesburg Pike. 8:00AM, I cannot make it to this meeting on time, why try. There goes $85 down to the garbage (non-recyclable). 8:05AM, I turn around at the first traffic light. I am going back home. 8:30AM, I am back in the house in a lighter car, 1/4 tank lighter. I burned my $85, wasted my time, polluted the environment, be unproductive at work....Please, can someone explain to me how the HOV lanes fit our American life style? How am I supposed to use HOV on my way to a personal meeting? Why am I paying over $3 for a toll road, just to sit in traffic for 90 minutes. Isn't this road privately owned? I don't put up with the long lines in retail store checkout. Why do I have to put up with it here? I have a topic for them to discuss "Straight from VA 267: Citizen Board Members Tell What They Really Want from VA toll road management." Murat Aksu
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