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Originally Posted by sonysnob
It's hard to look at HOV lanes as a worthwhile investment with these statistics.
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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
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