Several of you have e-mailed me, asking about how we enforce the rules on the HOV lanes. A person named H.C. writes: "There could be thousands - maybe millions - collected in city revenue, but because there is no patrol, the HOV lanes are packed with single drivers. Why is this? Why should the people abiding by the law have ...

    We have received more comments on a post about HOV lanes last Friday than any other post since we launched this blog 19 months ago. By 2 p.m. today, we received 106 comments on that one post, far outpacing the second most commented post with 65 comments. Many of you are wondering why METRO took so long to open the HOV lanes - and ...

  All high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes except the I-45 South HOV are open. Yesterday, METRO Police Chief Tom Lambert explained at a press conference what we were doing to keep the HOV lanes operational and why the Gulf Freeway lane remains closed. Click here to listen to his remarks. A lot of you are upset that the HOV lanes were ...

  When you're rushing to or from work, nothing beats slipping into an HOV lane - if you have the proper number of occupants, of course - and zipping along while hundreds of other cars are crawling in congested traffic. But if you drive the HOV lane, there are some safety tips to keep in mind. If you're not familiar with the rules ...

If you're used to speeding on the HOV lanes, you'll need to slow down. Last Saturday, METRO changed the traffic signs - alerting drivers that the new speed was changing to 65 miles per hour from 70 miles per hour. Why the slowdown? The METRO Police Department says the speed was changed to match the freeway speed limits of those ...

Anyone who carpools during peak traffic hours on the 290 HOV lane knows how the traffic crawls – at certain times and in certain spots. Several of you have written in, asking when we’re going to change the occupancy requirements in the peak morning and evenings hours from two or more occupants to three or more occupants. ...

  Officer John Chaney stood next to his shiny, black Harley-Davidson police cruiser as cars and trucks zipped past us in the early morning drizzle and talked about the job he loves – and the drivers who love him back. Chaney, a METRO police officer for 13 years, has been assigned for the past two years to enforcement of the HOV lanes ...