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HOV lanes and EVs (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by rbos@lemmy.ca to c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

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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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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 ):

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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. :)

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

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.