Crossing solid white lines in/out of express lanes is going to get $$$

[J1000]

Perhaps, but I'd think having an executive director that has zero civil engineering background or practical career experience has more to do with it. Metro Denver-Boulder wouldn't even fit within the state of Rhode Island and the difference in population density that's two orders tigher packed (R.I. is about 1,000 ppl/sq-mi while Colorado is about 50 ppl/sq-mi).

Trying to shoehorn east coast solutions is never going to work here.

However that's what they think. So they got an executive director who's father (who was Obama's chief of staff, by the way) surely had no hand in it only taking 8 years from graduating with an Ivy League history degree to running the U.S. DOT. Along the way standing out in jobs such as policy advisor and budget analyst, where you learn the ropes.

Not even an MBA along the way to suggest any understanding of large scale design-build management or even any time spent as a project engineer or manager on small jobs. Then on the change of presidents to a two-year stint running the R.I. DOT where there was no indication of standout performance.

It took 4 years before I could even sit for a test to be called an engineer. Most of us are still engineering interns still while she was a director of something or other in the Federal bureaucracy.

It's wokeness! Be sure to write that check to <insert your politician here> to prevent more wokeness.

Nah, it's probably more like plain and simple incompetence.

Plain and simple incompetence is DEI. Meritocracy is bad in their eyes.

 

[Stepmurr]

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence. Proposed both by Robert Hanlon and science fiction author Robert Heinlein.

 

[J1000]

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence. Proposed both by Robert Hanlon and science fiction author Robert Heinlein.

How long do you have to give someone the benefit of the doubt before malice becomes the most probable scenario?

 

[3rdGen4R]

Toll lanes are not going anywhere. I don't use them often, but I will say it's nice when I've needed to get past traffic. I do find people that go in and out of the express lanes to be inconsiderate of other people and actually those that follow the rules. I actually have no issue for this, specifically because these software systems don't discriminate on who is doing it, who will get out of the ticket, and so on and so forth. Speeding cameras, and systems like this actually don't care about anything beyond who is breaking the law, no one ever talks about how this is actually the most ethical way to enforce laws. But hey, who am I?

 

[BritKLR]

Yep, cameras don't care......​

Chicago’s “Race-Neutral” Traffic Cameras Ticket Black and Latino Drivers the Most​

Chicago’s “Race-Neutral” Traffic Cameras Ticket Black and Latino Drivers the Most

A ProPublica analysis found that traffic cameras in Chicago disproportionately ticket Black and Latino motorists. But city officials plan to stick with them — and other cities may adopt them too.

www.propublica.org

 

[3rdGen4R]

Yep, cameras don't care......​

Chicago’s “Race-Neutral” Traffic Cameras Ticket Black and Latino Drivers the Most​

Chicago’s “Race-Neutral” Traffic Cameras Ticket Black and Latino Drivers the Most

A ProPublica analysis found that traffic cameras in Chicago disproportionately ticket Black and Latino motorists. But city officials plan to stick with them — and other cities may adopt them too.

www.propublica.org

Support for Traffic Cameras Increases if Used as a Tool to Limit Interactions With Police

To increase public support for automated traffic safety cameras, regulators should emphasize the technology’s ability to limit racially divisive interactions with the police, according to a Rutgers study published in the journal Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

research.rutgers.edu

A new study suggests traffic cameras may help reduce racial disparity in police stops

A recent study found that national support for automated traffic cameras increased when participants viewed camera implementation through the lens of racial justice.

whyy.org

I have links as well. So I don’t get the point of your post.