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Washington Department of Transportation Southwest Region engineer Chad Hancock said the HOV lane is now carrying more people than either adjacent lane during peak two-hour morning commute hours.
Use of the lane is constrained by the level of bus service and park-and-ride spaces along the corridor, said Hancock.
Trends related to other goals, such as HOV lane travel time, impacts to traffic on other roads, increasing carpools, vanpools and transit ridership, maintaining safety and appropriate enforcement, are either stable or favorable, he said.
A public opinion poll was not conducted for the October evaluation, said Hancock.He said the Department has received about 25 citizen comments, mostly negative, since the last opinion survey in January 2003.
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Managing a lane in the I-5 corridor could benefit all users by reducing impacts on general purpose lanes, said Hancock.