Currently, there are no HOV lanes for the three-mile freeway segment, but the medians have been designed with sufficient clearance for their construction should the need arise in the future.

Under this realignment, heading southbound, SR 73 becomes a designated toll road immediately after the Jamboree/MacArthur ramp and remains so until its southern terminus at I-5.

It included 10 interchanges, 68 bridges, 725,000 square feet (67,400 m2) of retaining walls, and 32 million cubic yards (24,000,000 m3) of excavation at completion.

SR 73's toll road was the first to be financed with tax-exempt bonds on a stand-alone basis, including construction and environmental risk.

In 2011, $2.1 billion in debt for the San Joaquin Hills toll roads was restructured, which pushed back the time until the bonds are paid off and the route becomes a freeway to 2042.

As of July 2024[update], the gantry uses a variable pricing scheme based on the time of day for FasTrak users (it is not truly congestion priced because toll rates come from a preset schedule and are not based on actual congestion); non-FasTrak drivers must pay the $9.36 maximum toll regardless of the day and time.

Tolls are also collected at a flat rate for all drivers at the northbound exits and southbound entrances of La Paz Road ($2.70), Aliso Creek Road ($3.36), and SR 133 ($4.08); and at the southbound exits and northbound entrances of Newport Coast Drive ($3.78) and Bonita Canyon Drive ($2.28).