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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
It's really simple. The Golden Horseshoe (and increasingly Ottawa) is a sprawling mess. Queen's Park is starting to get that they can't keep building more lanes and have induced demand take that up and create choking again in a few years. Especially with the GTA adding another million in the decade to come. So they are purposely incentivizing carpooling and penalizing single driving. It is both carrot and stick.
You should check out jurisdictions where the carpool requirement is not two people in the car but three. That creates some unique practices like "slugging".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugging |
Except that HOV lanes aren't actually changing drivers behaviour. And they cost more, so the taxpayer is left footing the bill for a more expensive solution that isn't accomplishing its stated goal. It's a nice thought, but at least according to StatsCan, carpooling isn't growing in Toronto's CMA. You don't have to agree with me, but I didn't make those numbers up.
I'm familiar with slugging, and HOV restrictions that require more than one person per vehicle. In all of these cases, these are specific requirements for very urban downtown centres (in the case of DC, where slugging is common, it also has a very specific primary employment base), None of the examples where slugging or HOV-3+ are common are remotely comparable to the 400 going north to Barrie.
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