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(KRON) — More express lanes are coming to a busy stretch of a Bay Area highway.
New tolls on an 18-mile section of Interstate 80 in Solano County will open on Dec. 16, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission said in a statement. The tolls will begin at Red Top Road in Fairfield and extend to Interstate 505 in Vacaville, near the Nut Tree area, through both eastbound and westbound directions.
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The MTC said the new express lanes will “improve transit reliability and access for emergency response vehicles and provide time savings and reliability for Solano County residents and others traveling through the county.”
The express lanes will operate daily, including weekends, from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. Drivers must have FasTrak to use the lanes.
Solo drivers will pay the full toll to use the express lanes, and two-person carpools will pay half-price tolls with a FasTrak Flex tag set to “2.” Vehicles with three or more people as well as vanpools, buses and motorcycles can use the lanes for free if they set their FasTrak Flex toll tag to the “3+” position.
Toll prices are variable and change throughout the day depending on real-time traffic conditions. Digital signs over the roadway display the toll rates for destinations.
Drivers who use the express lane without FasTrak will be mailed a bill for the unpaid toll with a $10 penalty added. Failure to pay the toll and penalty fee on time will result in a second notice and an additional $20 penalty.
More information on the express lanes is available on the MTC website.
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Ryan Ocenada
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