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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Highway widening in Kanata was overkill. They should have only added two HOV and be done with it.
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I think we're missing the point with these HOV lanes.... I mean HOW MANY PEOPLE have changed their behaviour to use these lanes???
Some people would have carpooled anyway... most people don't carpool.
It needs to be asked:
1) How many people started carpooling because of these lanes? and
2) How many would stop carpooling if the lanes were removed?
I'd be willing to bet the answer to both questions is pretty close to zero.
So we have these "green" sounding HOV lanes, which actually create more pollution by forcing 4 lanes of traffic onto 3 lanes.... hence increasing almost everyone's drive time and spewing more pollution in the process.
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