Reporter but some commuters think tolling a highway which is now free, is wrong, even if it means more capacity. I dont understand why they can make it all a free road. Reporter rush hour times will be extended for four hours each way in the morning and evening. Tolls will affect both inbound and outbound lanes. Offpeak times, the ride is free. Reporter the widening project is to begin right away, with Environmental Impact studies. Tolls are to start next year. Ask then the lanes the new lane, right here, the fourmile stretch, inside the beltway, going eastbound, is to open the year after that. How much is it going to cost . They say the average pole l toll toll will be 6 each way. Reporting live, peggy fox, wusa 9. I66 is currently hov 2. That means carpoolers must have at least two pe now, in 2020, that converts to hov 3, which is what the other express lanes now require to ride for free. It is on to South Carolina and nevada for the president ial candidates for New Hampshires primar