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They converted regular lanes to HOV/express, but not enough people are carpooling.
by jedberg 5y ago
They converted regular lanes to HOV/express, but not enough people are carpooling.
- jeffbee 5y agoI don't they did. The Express lanes are either converted from existing HOV lanes (which means they are now open to more, not fewer people) or they were added (680 corridor). Unless you are talking about converted in the far far past from SOV to HOV. Examples: 880 south between Hegenberger and San Leandro was 4 lanes, widened to 5 lanes in 2015 with the addition of an HOV lane, which was then converted to an Express lane. 880 interchange with 237 used to have the left hand flyover HOV only, which was converted to Express, so now everyone can use it.
- jedberg 5y agoYeah you may be right about adding the lane, but the bigger issue is that the converted HOV to express, which means that cars with two people still have to pay and cars with one person can now pay and slow down the carpool. So now fewer people can use the carpool while at the same time others can slow down the carpool.