HOV question.

[Phooey]

What are your thoughts guys.

On my route to work in rush hour there is a national speed limit single carriageway road with two naes. Right hand for HOV traffic and a standard left hand lane. These lanes are separared by a solid white line.

Now, on the way to work there are tailbacks adding 20 - 30 minutes to my journey if I stayed in line. I can't filter or overtake because the lane is too narrow to pass the stationary or slow moving traffic without crossing the white line.

Would you use the HOV lane or stay in line without overtaking?

[Guest]

Leeds has them and they are available to motorcycles.

is the one you mention the A4174 Avon ring road? that one has no mention of motorcycles. So.. might be worth asking the local authority who will have issued the TRO (Traffic Regulation Order) to operate this new lane. You will get a definitive answer from them.

 

SCHEME DESCRIPTIONS

Leeds

Two lengths, totalling 1.5 km, of inbound High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) or '2 Plus' lanes were introduced along 2 km of the A647 dual carriageway.

These HOV lanes are available to buses, coaches, other vehicles carrying two or more people, motorcycles and pedal cycles. HGV’s over 7.5T are not permitted to use them. Advance signing is provided on the approaches.

[Phooey]

Leeds has them and they are available to motorcycles.

is the one you mention the A4174 Avon ring road? that one has no mention of motorcycles. So.. might be worth asking the local authority who will have issued the TRO (Traffic Regulation Order) to operate this new lane. You will get a definitive answer from them.

 

SCHEME DESCRIPTIONS

Leeds

Two lengths, totalling 1.5 km, of inbound High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) or '2 Plus' lanes were introduced along 2 km of the A647 dual carriageway.

These HOV lanes are available to buses, coaches, other vehicles carrying two or more people, motorcycles and pedal cycles. HGV’s over 7.5T are not permitted to use them. Advance signing is provided on the approaches.

 

No Shorty, I was thinking of the one on the A370 Weston to Bristol road.

[Phooey]

'A 2 km HOV lane was introduced on the eastbound carriageway (towards Bristol) of the A370 Long Ashton Bypass in March 2005, and operates during the morning peak, between 0700 and 0930 hours, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). The primary aim of the lane is to encourage more environmentally sustainable ways to travel along the A370 in preference to single occupant vehicles. Permitted users of the HOV lane are all vehicles with more than 1 occupant, buses/coaches and motorcycles.'

Found this ... I suppose this answers my question. Happy days.