Lexus lane

plural Lexus lanes

1. slangA toll-charging express lane on a public highway.

   As for the Lexus lane charge, UCLA transportation guru Brian Taylor argued that toll lanes aren't a bad deal for low-income people.

   2012 November 17, Steve Lopez, “Doing the math on 'Lexus lanes'”, in Los Angeles Times, →ISSN

   2 more examples

   There are many obvious reasons why this would be problematic, ranging from the inadequacy of existing local roads and mass transit to handle diverted travelers to the probability that a "high-occupancy toll" lane would become an elitist "Lexus lane" barrelling people to the Hamptons in record time.

   2006 May 21, “Uncrowding the Lane”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Critics say the sudden reliance on so-called “Lexus lanes” sells out public infrastructure to a foreign, for-profit company with unlimited tolling authority.

   2014 February 21, Nicholas Sakelaris, “Taking a toll: Life in the "Lexus lane"”, in Dallas Business Journal