UC Berkley Study Shows Kicking Hybrid Drivers Out Of HOV Lanes Are To Blame For Longer Commute Times

If you're like many California motorists, you probably looked on with envy or perhaps some stronger emotion when those single-occupant hybrids zipped by in the carpool lane. Others who had gone to the trouble of coordinating schedules and establishing real carpool relationships probably weren't too happy with their solitary HOV brethren either.

Surely, fairness was restored over the summer when the interlopers lost their HOV rights; the real carpoolers have seen their speeds increase, right?

Wrong.

 

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mpls - 10/12/2011 12:22:16 PM

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Misleading title, the issue is removing the speciasl labe for hybrid/EV cars put more cars on the main lanes thus increase commute time.. It is due to more cars rather than hybrid in particular.. it just so happens there are lot of hybrids..
What the report wnats is for the special lane to still exist..

Agent009 - 10/12/2011 1:25:43 PM

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Revised title to clarify confusion.

nguyenvuminh - 10/12/2011 10:03:52 PM

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LOL, 009 got caught cheating and is now using political back pedaling talk; "clarify confusion", please, you were trying to mislead and the reader ratted you out.