Dallas and Houston heeded the demand of Big Brother to build HOV lanes.
Now, most daily commuters have to drive past mostly vacant HOV lanes at minimal stop and go speed, wasting more gas.
Why? the truth is that the HOV lanes really didn’t lure people into car-pooling. Maybe the area is so large that car-pooling simply isn’t an attractive option since employers are spread out.
It started out that there were not a lot of “park and ride” facilities...After a long while “park and ride” facilities started to pop up, and those places support both the bus ridershhip and the HOV lanes...Because at most of them now you can get up and on the HOV lanes from those places...
They learned, yet I still feel the efforts are under-utilized...