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Q: Where are these new express toll lanes?

A: The lanes run north and south between the Highway 101-237 intersection near the border of Mountain View and Sunnyvale to Whipple Avenue in Redwood City.

Q: I commute to work alone. How much should I expect to pay to use the FasTrak lane?

A: There's no clear answer here but be prepared for high prices at rush hour. For standard single-occupancy vehicles, express lanes have a minimum cost usually of $0.50 just to enter a FasTrak zone. The price then rises and falls with traffic congestion – a cost structure known as "variable pricing" – with no upper limit that updates every five minutes.

Stacey Hendler-Ross, a spokesperson for the Valley Transit Authority, which is managing five miles of the FasTrak lane from Mountain View to Palo Alto said the agency expects prices for solo drivers for the new segment to average out higher than $2 a trip – however, it can be as high as $10 if there is traffic armageddon.

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IHNJ, IJLS "traffic armageddon". It's not clear to me whether those are Mx. Hendler-Ross's own words or those of the article author, but whoever it is is clearly from the area, lol.