alt Hacker NewsCan’t you pay to be in the HOV lane?
Seems like a pretty ideal system. Having that extra lane wouldn’t solve any issues for most drivers. For high occupancy or those willing to pay, it does.
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> Can’t you pay to be in the HOV lane?
On a few of them, but not the ones I commute on and am talking about. If you do use one of the 'pay' lanes, it becomes free if you switch your fasttrak device to '3+' setting, and given the frequency of visually obvious violations in the ones you can't pay for, I would be surprised if many people are actually paying for the ones you can pay for.
Depends on the location. Some are strictly passenger capacity.
I think you missed this point:
> I can look over and see that more than half of the drivers are in violation, and yet it is effectively unenforced.
So basically just another systemic benefit to the more well off
In most situations the restricted lane (regardless of how you pick who gets to use it), does in fact benefit everyone else.
Under high congestion traffic throughput plummets. Restricted access to one or more lanes lets you keep them flowing at near the peak, increasing the overall throughput of the system by much more than one of the congested lanes.