http://www.gothamist.com/2006/02/25/the_lie_hov_lan.php All comments for The LIE HOV Lane Goes Hybrid en-us 2007 nyc_daveh Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:32:49 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss daveh@gothamist.com daveh@gothamist.com 60 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/02/25/the_lie_hov_lan.php#comment-102997 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/02/25/the_lie_hov_lan.php#comment-102997 Comments Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:51:50 -0500 <p>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...</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2006/02/25/the_lie_hov_lan.php#comment-102928 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/02/25/the_lie_hov_lan.php#comment-102928 Comments Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:05:55 -0500 <p>doesn't the bqe have a HOV lane leading into the battery tunnel?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2006/02/25/the_lie_hov_lan.php#comment-102871 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/02/25/the_lie_hov_lan.php#comment-102871 Comments Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:20:53 -0500 <p>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</p>