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Alex

you are assuming that HOV only draws slugs, or slugs and other carpools. The actual HOV lanes on I395 are heavily used by buses and vanpools.

Have you ever been to the Pentagon bus transfer station at rush hour? Most of those buses run on I395. They cover annandale, burke, springfield, and other nearby areas. They are a mass transit system themselves. I would venture that the HOV lanes would be worthwhile even if they were HOV-8, and only open to buses and vanpools during rush hour. That they have capacity left over for the carpools, and are useful off rush hour (when there is often congestion on I395 but when transit is less competive for choice users) are bonuses. Probably justify the incremental cost of the lanes.

by AWalkerInTheCity on Jun 13, 2012 3:27 pm • link • report

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