Recent Streetsblog SF posts about HOV Lanes

Don’t Widen 101: How SM County Could Move More People With Less Traffic

By Andrew Boone | Jan 3, 2014 | 2 Comments

San Mateo County is poised to spend more than a hundred million dollars on an expansion of Highway 101 while passing over more effective, less expensive options to improve people’s commutes. Even as total traffic volumes have remained flat over the past decade on Highway 101 in San Mateo County, the City/County Association of Governments […]

Heavy Traffic Expected As Riders Scramble for BART Alternatives

By Matthew Roth | Aug 14, 2009 | 5 Comments

Flickr photo: schlick33 With BART’s operators’ union declaring an imminent strike that will shut down the entire system starting this Monday, Bay Area commuters are scrambling to find other options for getting to work, particularly from the East Bay, where BART and the Bay Bridge are the two primary transportation links across the water. Despite […]

Highway Toll Lane Construction Bill Stalled in State Senate Committee

By Dave Snyder | Jul 10, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photo: pixieclipx The Senate Transportation Committee met earlier this week to consider AB 744, a bill that would authorize the MTC to convert carpool lanes to toll “express lanes” and use the revenue to expand the regional carpool and bus express lane network. To its critics, the plan is the last gasp of suburban highway […]