A New Face For Sacramento Carpool Lanes

Posted by: Nate Berg

6 February 2007 - 11:00am

In the face of a carpool system that many say is failing, highway planners in Sacramento, California, are proposing a major facelift to the carpool lane system -- creating 50 miles of new carpool lanes on dedicated road bridges.

"Seventeen years after the first carpool lanes were rolled out in Sacramento, they remain a patchwork, offering limited time savings on increasingly congested roadways."

"Highway planners say a major fix is in order."

"In possibly the most ambitious transportation proposal in generations, officials plan to add 50 more miles of carpool lanes, knitting Sacramento's freeways into a 'seamless' system."

"Exclusive 'flyover' bridges, separated from regular traffic lanes, would allow carpoolers and commuter buses to swoop from one freeway to the next -- no merging -- turning Sacramento carpooling into the road version of first-class flying."

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Source: The Sacramento Bee, February 5, 2007