James Poulos
James Poulos, Ed. · Jul 16, 2010 at 5:14am

"Arlington, Virginia taxpayers have managed to pay a law firm $744,000" to find out, notes Walter Olson.

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Re: HOV Lanes: Racist?

Duane Oyen

I hit 3 links in a fruitless effort to find the grounds for the suit. That was enough time wasted.

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Re: HOV Lanes: Racist?

Zoon Politikon
Duane Oyen: I hit 3 links in a fruitless effort to find the grounds for the suit. That was enough time wasted. · Jul 16 at 6:28am

i wouldn't know the grounds for the suit, but the it must surely be related to some policy objective against "inequality of result", no ? Being a public road way that is meant to benefit the common good, and being that the common good is best served by equitable results, i have to imagine some creative attorney could find a way to bring a suit against the city for allowing such disparate results to occur on a publicly maintained roadway.

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Re: HOV Lanes: Racist?

James Poulos, Ed.

Here's what you're looking for, Duane:

Buried in the lawsuit filed last month, county attorneys argued the HOT lanes, "encourage and enable a financially-able, privileged class of suburban and rural, primarily Caucasian residents from Stafford and Spotsylvania counties operating single occupancy vehicles ("SOV") unimpeded access on toll lanes."

In other words, it benefits wealthy white people.

A few pages later, the suit claims the Federal Highway Administration and the Virginia Department of Transportation failed to do the proper environmental analysis and that "their actions also constituted civil rights violations as they discriminated against minority and low income communities."


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