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Originally Posted by libtard
Statcan logs the data. You can find it here
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-r...016029-eng.pdf
According to Statistics Canada, the share of commuting using carpool in Vancouver is 11.2%. However commuting makes up a minority in highway travel overall, so the real share of carpooling among all traffic is much lower than 11%, making carpool lanes either underused or not used as intended (most carpoolers are family members who would travel together regardless of carpool lanes, so they don't actually reduce vehicle travel). |
But it's also transit that uses those lanes. So that report shows that theoretically, HOV lanes should be used by about 31.6% of the population for the Vancouver CMA, or 19% in Abbostford-Mission. Also, the goal is to reward these two modes by increasing their relative speed in congested highways, and to get these (often slower) vehicles off the general travel lane.