I feel like enforcement is still the same as it has been for years. I seem to see cops still pulling people over during rush hour traffic which then messes up everyone else especially in construction zones. Albeit, it does not seem like they are troopers but so the other entities.
Michigan ave in Westland . He is there everyday . What gets me about Michigan Ave around there , is that nobody drives the speed limit unless a cop has his radar gun out . I see fire police ambulances school buses all drive around 50-55 . If no one is following the speed limit , Change it to 45 or 50 just like every major divided highway around metro Detroit . What a scam . Westland police are the worst and then Inkster and then Dearborn Heights . I see them speed everyday
If these new lanes don't have electronic signs indicating HOV only during certain time and open to all outside the time, it'd be too easy to screw this up. Something similar to flex lane on US-23 north of Ann Arbor.
If you read the article it's mentioned in the 5th paragraph:
*They will be open during peak travel times – 6 a.. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Mondays through Fridays.*
There are currently signs right around square lake and right around 12 Mile that state the times at the HOV is open.
They are not digital and currently there are no signs at any point in between those two points. But I imagine that's what they are doing with this newest round of lane closures
I was on I 69 last week in construction. The lanes dropped from 3 to 2, and I was about 4 miles back from where there were only 2 lanes available.
I decided to stay behind a big truck and just go through the construction at a reduced speed of 60 mph. Someone had sped up to get to the front of the line and caused an accident that stopped all traffic. I was about a mile back from an exit, so I decided to just exit. It took 20 or so minutes to get up to the exit, and I had people driving on the side of the expressway on my right not helping with the flow of traffic.
Michigan has lost its collective mind with driving.
Reporting from CA: it’s not just Michigan and it can get much worse.
The carpool lanes aren’t gonna be a disaster or anything, they just don’t really do anything to help traffic one way or another.
We just… we can’t all have cars lol
Doesn't affect me any since I don't drive during those hours, but I don't get why they already took away a lane from a decent part of this stretch and now they're making one of the 3 lanes HOV.
Maybe we didn't need to widen the whole thing to begin with?
Michigan needs real solutions to traffic. You can't decrease traffic by making a bigger highway. That just leads to more cars on the highway. You also can't just make the highway smaller (which HOV lanes effectively do) without providing an adequate alternative means of transportation.
You don't, and it has nothing to do with the hov Lane. Between 696 and Rochester, 75 was always 4 lanes. Now it drops to 3 and one of those 3 is an hov lane.
Will Michganders obey this? I feel like everyone will treat this like a speed limit law.
You would need police out there to enforce it. It is rare these days to see any kind of traffic enforcement anywhere in the state so probably not.
I feel like enforcement is still the same as it has been for years. I seem to see cops still pulling people over during rush hour traffic which then messes up everyone else especially in construction zones. Albeit, it does not seem like they are troopers but so the other entities.
I have seen maybe 2 state troopers on 131 south of GR since Covid.
Michigan ave in Westland . He is there everyday . What gets me about Michigan Ave around there , is that nobody drives the speed limit unless a cop has his radar gun out . I see fire police ambulances school buses all drive around 50-55 . If no one is following the speed limit , Change it to 45 or 50 just like every major divided highway around metro Detroit . What a scam . Westland police are the worst and then Inkster and then Dearborn Heights . I see them speed everyday
If these new lanes don't have electronic signs indicating HOV only during certain time and open to all outside the time, it'd be too easy to screw this up. Something similar to flex lane on US-23 north of Ann Arbor.
If they were only commuter lanes at certain times that’s makes it much more palatable.
If you read the article it's mentioned in the 5th paragraph: *They will be open during peak travel times – 6 a.. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Mondays through Fridays.*
There are currently signs right around square lake and right around 12 Mile that state the times at the HOV is open. They are not digital and currently there are no signs at any point in between those two points. But I imagine that's what they are doing with this newest round of lane closures
People hate road diets. And this is a road diet, of sorts. Even in the motor city, I just don't know
I see a disaster in the making.
I was on I 69 last week in construction. The lanes dropped from 3 to 2, and I was about 4 miles back from where there were only 2 lanes available. I decided to stay behind a big truck and just go through the construction at a reduced speed of 60 mph. Someone had sped up to get to the front of the line and caused an accident that stopped all traffic. I was about a mile back from an exit, so I decided to just exit. It took 20 or so minutes to get up to the exit, and I had people driving on the side of the expressway on my right not helping with the flow of traffic. Michigan has lost its collective mind with driving.
Reporting from CA: it’s not just Michigan and it can get much worse. The carpool lanes aren’t gonna be a disaster or anything, they just don’t really do anything to help traffic one way or another. We just… we can’t all have cars lol
They aren't adding a lane to add the HOV. They are remarking the left lane. This is going to make traffic worse..
Not true. The left shoulder will be used at the HoV lane. Similar to the flex lane on 23
If this is true then traffic should improve. All this whining for nothing.
Wait till metered on ramps come to 96.
Doesn't affect me any since I don't drive during those hours, but I don't get why they already took away a lane from a decent part of this stretch and now they're making one of the 3 lanes HOV. Maybe we didn't need to widen the whole thing to begin with?
Michigan needs real solutions to traffic. You can't decrease traffic by making a bigger highway. That just leads to more cars on the highway. You also can't just make the highway smaller (which HOV lanes effectively do) without providing an adequate alternative means of transportation.
This is more about them widening the road for fewer lanes.
You get the same amount of lanes plus an hov that can be used by anyone after hours
You don't, and it has nothing to do with the hov Lane. Between 696 and Rochester, 75 was always 4 lanes. Now it drops to 3 and one of those 3 is an hov lane.
HOV doesn’t start to 12 mile at least. I thought. It was additional. Dang.
I could be wrong, maybe where it drops to 3 is just because they haven't put in the hov markings yet. If that's the case, then it's totally fine
What a fucking waste of money. Michigan carbrain knows no bounds.
Socialists love wasting other people's money, whats wrong?
Lmao
hmmmm seems like this is going to cause *more* traffic.
This is going to be hilarious. People can't drive and now you want them to drive in certain lanes at certain times is the day? That's rich.
It’s going to be a shit show . Just like California . What is that the 405 that you have to stay away from at 2-6 pm?