ONTARIO, Calif. – New express toll lanes opened Thursday on the 10 Freeway in San Bernardino County following four years of construction along the interstate.
Officials with the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority said 10 miles of new toll lanes opened Wednesday at 10 p.m. between the Los Angeles and San Bernardino County lines in Montclair and Etiwanda Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga.
There are now a pair of express lanes in both directions, with multiple access points along the way. Transportation officials said two more phases of construction will add another 26 miles of express lanes with construction on the next phase expected to begin next year.
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The toll lanes aim to ease some of the worst bumper-to-bumper traffic in the county.
“I think it will help traffic. Like this morning it’s been pretty smooth,” said driver Darlene Compton who uses the stretch of freeway …