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The point is that HOV lanes are slightly higher capacity than SOV lanes, but that hardly qualifies as 'good planning'.

HOV lanes are putting lipstick on the pig, when what really was needed in those kinds of corridors was more transit investment.

Can you provide an example of where roads (whether SOV or HOV) would represent good planning? Seems like there should be some examples since you are saying that "good planning" and "roads" are not paradoxical. What criteria would roads have to meet to be "good planning" and why don't the 395 HOV lanes qualify?

Slugging basically poaches bus riders...Now maybe by shifting bus riders to slugging, we create room for new bus riders, but they won't all be replaced

And buses poach slugging. Why exactly would it be a bad thing if bus riders became slugs even if those bus riders weren't replaced with new riders? In fact, the advantage of bus riders becoming slugs is that there is zero incremental cost to government for each additional slug but there is some incremental cost for each additional bus rider.

If not for slugging people would have to actually create carpools, instead of gaming the system.

Why are traditional car pools better than slugging? Don't traditional car pools also siphon off people who may use transit?

Now maybe by shifting bus riders to slugging, we create room for new bus riders, but they won't all be replaced. Yes, this is the exact same argument I make for bike sharing, but bike sharing has a unique benefit (health) that riding in someone's passenger seat doesn't.

So, if there was no health benefit to bike sharing, would you oppose it?

The bottom line is that a variety of transportation options is ideal and slugging is one (small) part of the transportation menu.

by Falls Church on Jun 13, 2012 2:18 pm • link • report