Lake Forest commuters find continuous access ends at county line

  • 2014-12-29
Across Southern California, freeway carpool lanes are being extended in an attempt to improve rush hour traffic. Here in Orange County, an additional measure is being taken with regard to its High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, thought these will not extend to Lake Forest.

According to an article last month at latimes.com, Lake Forest commuters will not be seeing continuous access extending into Los Angeles County According to Los Angeles Caltrans district spokesman, Patrick Chandler, in view of several studies, the county sees no compelling reason to make the switch.

Orange County's network of 267 miles of HOV lanes are in the process of being reconfigured to allow motorists to use all entrance and exit ramps, rather than just a few designated ones. The conversion, which began seven years ago, is being done in stages. As was the case with the introduction of HOV lanes, the switch will no doubt go more smoothly with the assistance of a professional printing service that can help keep locals informed.

To date, 106 miles of the county’s HOV lanes have been converted to continuous access. O.C. officials say that where the HOV lanes have been reworked fewer accidents, less congestion and presumably less pollution have followed. This can be explained by the reduction of sudden accelerations and quick lane changes.