HOT lane

How much is your time worth? If you live in southern California and drive to work, the answer for some of you seems to be more than $17 an hour. That conclusion is drawn from data contained in an Infrastrurist interview with Jack Finn, the head of toll services for HTNB, an infrastructure firm that designed Route 91 in Orange County. Route 91 is one of nine roads in the U.S. offering High-Occupancy Toll access to its High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV lane). As well as vehicles with two or more passengers, single-occupant single-driver cars can use the lane by paying a toll to enter what is known as...