Oh yeah I use HOV every time. Money is always the solution.
The trick going southbound if the traffic looks backed up around where the HOV lets off around stafford is take the last local exit and take your second left onto Mine Road and follow that for ten minutes to where it lets you get back on around 136.
Of course with the expansion opening tomorrow that equation will change. Will be interesting to see if it lets off on the thru lanes of 95 or local or if we have an option and what the play is because 133 to 126 can be a mess historically so figuring the code of how best to traverse those 7 miles in rush hour is the move. I don’t think it’ll be route 1 with the bridge in Fredericksburg and all the lights thru downtown.
