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SCDOT considers high-occupancy vehicle lanesBy Tony Bartelme (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Saturday, July 19, 2008
As the area's population swells, rush hour on Interstate 26 has become the plumber's equivalent of a stopped-up pipe. Now, state and local transportation leaders think high-occupancy vehicle lanes could get traffic in this key pipeline flowing more freely. South Carolina transportation officials recently asked for federal funding to study whether HOV lanes, as they're often called, would make sense in Charleston. Common in many large cities, HOV lanes typically are reserved for vehicles carrying multiple passengers, such as buses or people in car pools. If implemented, the HOV lanes on I-26 would the first in South Carolina. Read more in tomorrow's editions of The Post and Courier. |
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This article has 4 comment(s)
Posted by The_Mouth_of_the_South on July 19, 2008 at 10:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)
HOV lanes would just increase congestion. I was driving through Charlotte a couple of years ago, and the HOV lanes were completely empty while traffic was backed up in all the other lanes! If those lanes were open to traffic, maybe the congestion there wouldn't be so bad.
In the day and age of flex time with most employers, ride sharing is unrealistic.
Posted by devster on July 19, 2008 at 5:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I love HOV lanes! Driving through Virginia a few years ago, a buddy & I drove through about 10 miles of stopped traffic in the HOV lane. Yes; we were both in the same car.
Posted by Thomas1776 on July 19, 2008 at 8:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"Now, state and local transportation leaders think high-occupancy vehicle lanes could get traffic in this key pipeline flowing more freely"
Brainless thinking, is more like it. Where are these peoples minds at anyway? Are they being drug and alcohol tested?
Posted by Acecool on July 19, 2008 at 11:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sweet, an excuse to buy some blow up dolls!
No, but seriously we need to train our drivers to not FLY up on people in the right lane then slam on the brakes which causes everyone behind to overreact and slam on their brakes causing 30 minutes of delay...
We need to train people to use highway ON RAMPS properly (Accelerate to highway speed, maybe a little above then you have room to slow down to squeeze in)
Also people when you are in the leftmost lane, PLEASE STEP ON IT AND PASS PEOPLE OR GET THE EFF BACK IN YOUR SLOW LANE!!!
Oh, and stop passing on the right, its illegal in any country that makes sense and is unsafe...
Can I also mention stop eating KFC, Applying Makeup, Talking or Texting on your cell phone while driving PLEASE... and dont do it all at the same time (Ive seen it done once before... some lady was talking with one hand, driving with her knee, eating kfc with her left hand and applying chapstick (the one you dip your finger in))