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Hybrid car owners driving on the Long Island Expressway got a nice gift from the Pataki administration yesterday. Starting on March 1, "hybrid-power cars will be allowed to use high-occupancy-vehicle lanes" on the LIE.
The incentive isn't anything new nationally, but it is new to New York. And interestingly it only apply to the "highest-mileage hybrids" (that's hybrids with a minimum of 45 miles per gallon in highway driving). And since the LIE is the only highway in New York with H.O.V. lanes it makes sense that it would be implemented there.
Every time we hear about HOV lanes we think of that episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry picks up a prostitute so he can drive in the HOV lane to get to a baseball game. Maybe we should learn how to drive?
Photograph by Quarlo.
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And here's why letting hybrids into HOV lanes is a bad idea:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/business/08leonhardt.html?ex=1297054800&en=60fc440e17c77cd9&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
'>David Leonhardt
Buy a Hybrid, and Save a Guzzler
Published: February 8, 2006
New York Times
doesn't the bqe have a HOV lane leading into the battery tunnel?
As someone who travels on the LIE daily (when I'm not out of town on business as I am now) I can tell you the HOV is a waste of time.
If they turned the HOV into a 4th lane of traffic, the volume would go down and the average speed up, and gas consumption down.
After seeing weekend levels of traffic during President's Day weekend, with all 4 lanes occupied and running smooth (except the idiots going 50 in the HOV) it would definitely have run smoother daily if all 4 were open to all traffic instead of just the handful in the HOV lane.
My 2 cents...