alt Hacker NewsThe HOV lanes cause absurd amounts of congestion, both from encouraging all the HOV drivers to aggressively switch lanes, and because they greatly increase the speed differential between lanes.
They’re a money / surveillance grab.
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SR2Z • yesterday at 7:32 AM
I really would like to see a citation for how adding new, congestion-free lanes with limited opportunities for merging to an already congested highway makes it worse.
whimsicalism • yesterday at 1:05 PM
yeah i think you’re just making up reasons to be mad about something you were going to dislike.
Is there data to support this or is this just your hunch? Because I’m betting this is false.
It’s not a money grab as much as moving more of the actual cost of freeways onto drivers who are mostly used to externalizing it