HOUSTON — Interstate 15 can be a bear on weekday afternoons, a mass of brake lights commuting north into the suburbs.
Brian Dutcher, the coach of San Diego State's basketball team, leaves practice and drives home to Rancho Bernardo about that time every day, heading west on I-8 from campus and then north into the I-15 quagmire. Once you get past Highway 52, there's an express lane that requires a FasTrak account and dynamic pricing based on the level of congestion. Dutcher, who makes $1.2 million per year, doesn't have one.
He sits in the rush-hour traffic like everyone else.
