HOV lanes on N1

[kaspaas]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20061003071948397C227717

Changing lanes to ease Ben Schoeman traffic
Gill Gifford
October 03 2006 at 11:09AM

A pilot project aimed at easing traffic congestion on the N1 highway between Pretoria and Johannesburg comes into effect on October 23.

Traffic experts predict that the project - in which the right hand lane will be made a high-occupancy vehicle lane - will help the flow of traffic.

Transport MEC Ignatius Jacobs announced details of the project on Monday. He said the project would be launched along the 36km stretch of highway between the two cities in observation of October as Public Transport Month.

Click on link for the rest of the report.

 

[kaspaas]

This will most probably mean that the N1 will get to a no-go area for business people having to attend meetings.

I'm a regular having to go from Centurion to JHB to attend a meeting. I wish the idiots who dreamt out this idiotic scheme first did a study WHY people are driving on their own. In my case: The meeting starts at say 9:30, and I need to return right after.

There is no another means of time efficient transport. There is no need for another person at the meeting.

So I'll most probably be stuffed with this new arrangement which is going to jam the N1 for sure.

 

[Syndyre]

So how long is it gonna take before people start putting blow-up dolls in the passenger seat to fool the cameras?

 

[icyrus]

Ahh the stupidty. Typical of our government to take the cop-out option.

I expect motorists will obey this law as much as they obey the rest of our traffic laws...

 

[Leitmotif]

What cop-out option? It could work, if you convinced the box pilots to pay attention. As for Mr. 9.30 meeting, what about everyone else driving in alone to get to work? These are the people that the initiative is aimed at. Over 90% of cars I pass (and I pass a lot of cars) have exactly one occupant.

 

[noswal]

HOV's work well in the US, in Long Island they have a national highway with HOV's and parkways with HOV's - the parkways only have cars (with very low bridges crossing them).

 

[Syndyre]

What cop-out option?

Regulate people instead of improving the underlying infrastructure.

 

[icyrus]

What cop-out option? It could work, if you convinced the box pilots to pay attention. As for Mr. 9.30 meeting, what about everyone else driving in alone to get to work? These are the people that the initiative is aimed at. Over 90% of cars I pass (and I pass a lot of cars) have exactly one occupant.

Its a cop-out option because there is no public transport - or at least none that would earn that title in a first world country. One car-pool lane is not going to fix anything when there is no alternative.

 

[Luke7777]

HOV's work well in the US, in Long Island they have a national highway with HOV's and parkways with HOV's - the parkways only have cars (with very low bridges crossing them).

Apparently broadband also works well over there I'm quite sure that their national highway doesn't have only 3 lanes with the left clogged up with slow moving trucks and the right to be dedicated to HOV

 

[kaspaas]

What cop-out option? It could work, if you convinced the box pilots to pay attention. As for Mr. 9.30 meeting, what about everyone else driving in alone to get to work? These are the people that the initiative is aimed at. Over 90% of cars I pass (and I pass a lot of cars) have exactly one occupant.

At the current fuel prices, those that are able to utilize car pools are doing so already - unless they are complete idiots.

All this is going to achieve is to jam the N1 totally. I doubt there is any more pooling capacity for the traffic on the N1.

Most probably we will employ a pensioner to occupy the passenger seat - minimum wages will be peanuts compared to sitting for hours in a rediculous regulatory traffic jam - made worse by the income collectors dressed as traffic cops.

 

[noxibox]

It's the correct thing to do to encourage travelling in groups. But it does have to be strictly policed. In the US they have cops monitoring roads and fining anyone who is travelling alone in the wrong lane.

And the fine should be higher if you use a dummy to appear to have multiple occupants.

If you have a meeting get a motorcycle.

 

[noswal]

Of course not, they drive on the right

 

[Syndyre]

Most probably we will employ a pensioner to occupy the passenger seat - minimum wages will be peanuts compared to sitting for hours in a rediculous regulatory traffic jam - made worse by the income collectors dressed as traffic cops.

Lol good idea, they could ride back and forth all day.

 

[noxibox]

Most probably we will employ a pensioner to occupy the passenger seat - minimum wages will be peanuts compared to sitting for hours in a rediculous regulatory traffic jam - made worse by the income collectors dressed as traffic cops.

Well there you have a creative solution. Hire yourself someone unemployed as your car co-occupant.

 

[icyrus]

Well there you you have a creative solution. Hire yourself someone unemployed as your car co-occupant.

If you're going to hire someone to be in the car with you the whole time they might aswell drive. I sense a business opportunity

 

[Luke7777]

Most probably we will employ a pensioner to occupy the passenger seat - minimum wages will be peanuts compared to sitting for hours in a rediculous regulatory traffic jam - made worse by the income collectors dressed as traffic cops.

I can see my wife having a huge "staff" turnover, leaving before 05:00 and getting back after 18:30....ALONE
She might have to get a stamped permit vouching for her legal single driver status

 

[thed33p]

we are in a situation where we can't get people off the >HARD SHOULDER< - now you're gonna try and keep them off the >FREEWAY<???

good luck...

 

[Syndyre]

If you're going to hire someone to be in the car with you the whole time they might aswell drive. I sense a business opportunity

Shuttle service might not do too badly.

 

[HosstheBoss]

More laws to police, more laws for people to break, more laws that don’t necessarily solve problems, and more laws that create new problems that will need more laws!

Ahh the status of police state is coming closer every day!

 

[icyrus]

Shuttle service might not do too badly.

I was thinking Rent-A-Driver