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Falls Church,

So, "good planning" requires that we have no roads at all even if they are HOV? Only rail qualifies as "good planning"?

No, that's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is that there are severe capacity limits to cars. They're a low capacity mode of transportation, even when you load them up with multiple occupants. HOV lanes are putting lipstick on the pig, when what really was needed in those kinds of corridors was more transit investment.

Slugging isn't about carpooling, really. Slugging is a sort of proto-transit service.

The larger point is about priorities - to the extent that HOV lanes are just there to milk capacity out of unsustainable highways, then they're just rationalizations for more auto-centric planning - doubling down on something we know has limits. Ergo, HOV lanes is an awfully low bar for 'good planning.'

by Alex B. on Jun 13, 2012 1:28 pm • link • report

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