Letter: Instead of Peach Pass, we need truck-only lanes on interstates - Gainesville Times

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Letter: Instead of Peach Pass, we need truck-only lanes on interstates

Signs show the toll prices for the Peach Pass express lanes on Interstate 85 headed north outside of Atlanta in fall 2012, about a year after the lanes debuted. - photo by Michelle Boaen Jameson

0930HOT2 — Signs show the toll prices for the Peach Pass express lanes on Interstate 85 headed north outside of Atlanta in fall 2012, about a year after the lanes debuted. - photo by Michelle Boaen Jameson

Peach Pass has been a great failure for taxpayers and commuters alike. The system is set up so that wealthier commuters get to use a luxury lane for work and travel. Everyone else gets to enjoy life in the slow lane.