HOV lane signage

[UptownRoadGeek]

[haljackey]

Here;s what they look like around here:

Direction signs:


Exit lane forming:


Buffer zone:


"Weave" zone:  (left side only)

[architect77]

New I-75 HOV signage (Clayton County, Ga.):






Be well,

Bryant

Could it be true? Has Georgia comes to its senses and quit using that skinny typeface? Hurray!, I may have to move back down there!

[Hellfighter]

Sadly, the only HOV area in the State.

[architect77]

Georgia's larger "HOV EXIT" tabs are a direct result of that horrific bus crash when the bus driver mistook an Hov left exit sign for a simple lane "shifting over a little" sign as is common in Southern California (I-10 for example). That accident underscores the importance of standards and continuity in highway signage.

North Carolina's first HOV lanes are somewhat peculiar. I don't care for the + symbol even though it makes perfect sense, and I drove this section of I-77 north of Charlotte and I remember it having one very long access opportunity but no more for its entire length.

[Bryant5493]

Could it be true? Has Georgia comes to its senses and quit using that skinny typeface? Hurray!, I may have to move back down there!

Those newer signs in that photo are around the areas where there's new HOV signage, not anywhere else. Though, they could spread to more locations.


Be well,

Bryant

[Hellfighter]

Could it be true? Has Georgia comes to its senses and quit using that skinny typeface? Hurray!, I may have to move back down there!

Those newer signs in that photo are around the areas where there's new HOV signage, not anywhere else. Though, they could spread to more locations.


Be well,

Bryant

I always say that the contractor messed up the default font in Word, and that's why Georgia's signs are all screwed up! 

[deathtopumpkins]

North Carolina's first HOV lanes are somewhat peculiar. I don't care for the + symbol even though it makes perfect sense, and I drove this section of I-77 north of Charlotte and I remember it having one very long access opportunity but no more for its entire length.

I don't see what's so peculiar about that... What else would you use besides the + to denote two or more? And as for the restricted access, also perfectly normal. Our HOV lanes here on I-64 have one entrance, and then 9 miles later an exit. And the HOV lanes on I-84 east of Hartford, CT are similar: Heading eastbound you have one entrance, and a few HOV-only exits to surface streets, before a few miles later an exit back onto the I-84 mainline. The point of HOV lanes is not to be entirely accessible.

[njroadhorse]

There's full signage for the HOV lanes on I-279 North out of Pittsburgh, but I never see them open!

[NJRoadfan]

NJ's only HOV lanes. The signs that used to be on I-287 and I-80 were pretty much the same.

[roadfro]

...The point of HOV lanes is not to be entirely accessible.

Not quite. The goal of HOV lanes is to encourage multiple-occupant vehicles, thereby reducing congestion.

However, limiting or restricting access to an HOV lane reduces weaving and merging conflicts with regular traffic, in theory reducing congestion and delay for vehicles in the HOV lane. Highway planners implement such designs in an effort to entice motorists to use carpool using HOV lanes.

[deathtopumpkins]

Well that is the ultimate goal, yes, but you get my point.  They have no significant benefit over the regular travel lanes if one can move freely in-and-out.