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HOV lanes su**.
Larry,
Its obvious that the Beaurocrats that come up with this chit, have no clue and obviously never had any time and motion studies training. In theory you can make almost anything work on paper.
In theory when a light turns green and everyone hits the gas at the same time, there is no traffic. Unfortunately in the real world every persons reaction time is stacked up, and the last person in line is the one that bears the full brunt of it. Silly example, not really.
As you said Larry, if that HOV lane has an "end" somethere, then there is a bottleneck,and most if not all of the benefits are lost right there, it makes it even worse since the Flow has now been interrupted .Someone has to pay the cost in time that you just gained for those few minutes, UNLESS the hov lane ends AFTER the traffic jam,or there is a left lane exit, which is rare. Overall, no time has been saved,in fact your small gain cost several other people an even longer delay. In short, its a way to punish all those who are not carpooling, nothing more. And this is GOOD part of HOV lanes.
The really bad part is when its completely EMPTY(because people are complying with the carpool requirements) and the other lanes are JAMMED. Whoever came up whith HOV lanes should be whipped.
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