Dilla
Senior Member
I was just speaking with a friend about how more carpooling lanes would be nice. Will it be a large undertaking for the police to enforce these rules?
From the Star:
May 24, 2007 01:40 PM
Tess Kalinowski
Staff Reporter
Queen's Park has unveiled a long-term plan that will put carpooling lanes on virtually all provincial highways in the Toronto region.
Ontario already has High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes on Highway 403 and the 404, and is building them on the QEW and Highway 427by 2011.
But yesterday it unveiled a third, 2017-and-beyond phase to its HOV strategy that would interconnect existing HOV lanes and extend them into the growing Peel, Durham, Halton and York Regions.
"HOV lanes on our highways are a triumphant success," Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield told reporters at the government's Downsview traffic operations centre this morning. (Thurs.)
The southbound Highway 404 lanes that extend from Highway 7 to the 401 already shave 17 minutes off that 11-kilometre stretch, she said.
A network of HOV lanes is part of a "holistic" transportation plan that also supports greater use of public transit, encouraging more people to share a ride or take the bus because they'll reach their destination faster, she said.
Citing the need to accommodate another two million vehicles in the Toronto area in the next 25 years, Cansfield also announced the government will expand carpool parking lots so more commuters can connect to transit.
From the Star:
May 24, 2007 01:40 PM
Tess Kalinowski
Staff Reporter
Queen's Park has unveiled a long-term plan that will put carpooling lanes on virtually all provincial highways in the Toronto region.
Ontario already has High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes on Highway 403 and the 404, and is building them on the QEW and Highway 427by 2011.
But yesterday it unveiled a third, 2017-and-beyond phase to its HOV strategy that would interconnect existing HOV lanes and extend them into the growing Peel, Durham, Halton and York Regions.
"HOV lanes on our highways are a triumphant success," Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield told reporters at the government's Downsview traffic operations centre this morning. (Thurs.)
The southbound Highway 404 lanes that extend from Highway 7 to the 401 already shave 17 minutes off that 11-kilometre stretch, she said.
A network of HOV lanes is part of a "holistic" transportation plan that also supports greater use of public transit, encouraging more people to share a ride or take the bus because they'll reach their destination faster, she said.
Citing the need to accommodate another two million vehicles in the Toronto area in the next 25 years, Cansfield also announced the government will expand carpool parking lots so more commuters can connect to transit.