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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
It's moving from giving incentives to take transit / bike / walk / carpool towards penalizing you for single person car commutes. There will be more gridlock because of this!
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Considering that new mixed-occupancy lanes will quickly become just as congested as before, it would be nice to see the new lanes help people using high occupancy vehicle get somewhere.
It can be very difficult to get pre-existing lanes turned from mixed-traffic to bus lanes. As such, it makes sense to avoid the lengthy and taxing battle by just building the lanes as HOV or bus lanes from the start.