HOV lanes and EVs
HOV lanes and EVs
Now that something like a quarter of car sales in BC are EVs, I am starting to think their privileged access to HOV lanes is no longer a sustainable concession. There are just so many that the priority should shift back away from single occupancy vehicles.
Alternatively, we could keep the allowance, but add a second HOV lane, leaving gas vehicles to whatever's left on the highway. But that probably be unpopular. 😀
Who in government would I write to express this opinion? MP or MLA?
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Alternatively, we could keep the allowance, but add a second HOV lane, leaving gas vehicles to whatever's left on the highway. But that probably be unpopular. 😀
Can't afford EV, or house to charge it, but I'd still support it. Fuck the idiotic gas guzzlers on the roads.
What I'd really like to see is some enforcement of the HOV lanes. I see random wanker driving in there alone waaayyy too often, and shortly after there's like 10 of them. (Talking about a particular section in Pitt Meadows, and no they aren't all trying to take the next exit). Then again, there so many other rules and laws that go in enforced on the road that his is just another thing to throw on top of the pile.
I'd like to see properly implemented bike lanes everywhere first. I'd be more inclined if I knew drivers of several thousand pound vehicles had extremely low chances of clipping and killing me while they're distracted. Good for the body and the environment.
Lovely, I can't afford a place to live in Surrey where I work and the bus would take me 2.5 hours so fuck me I guess. Should just quit my job and go one welfare I suppose.
We could definitely use better transit, as well.
Need to tackle problems in a specific order, transit is the largest one rather than HOV lanes.
I don't understand why we can't have trains ):
Yeah, a core train line down the Fraser valley would be amazing. Something to connect from Hope all the way to Whistler with high speed commuter rail.
That said, I think we can do multiple things at once. :)
You definitely could, especially with infinite resources, but prioritization also saves money.
If you had a core train that ran all the way from hope to Whistler we probably wouldn't be needing to spend all this money expanding the highway or even have HOV lanes so it quite possibly could be one or the other, because once the money is spent on HOV lanes people may say a train is too expensive we have no money left.