Social Engineering Lanes - 520

The so called High Occupancy Vehicle lanes are very expensive social engineering efforts. The concept as put in place by WSDOT on 520 fails miserably. After a few more studies they may notice that the current 520 floating bridge is only two lanes in each direction. Funneling three lanes into two will alway create problems. Now they have variable speed signs - yesterday they were saying (right to left) 55, 40, 40. The traffic in the two general purpose lanes was traveling at about 25-30 MPH - backed up by the HOV lanes merging at the last possible second into the general travel lanes.

Until they have a complete HOV lane system, they should require 4 or more passengers to use the HOV lane (formerly called the shoulder).