PVE been driving
those new car pool
lanes often enough
lately to develop a new
pet peeve.

Those marvellous
High Occupancy Vehicle
(HOV) Lanes -— which |
find better labeled as “J.ow
Occupancy Vehicle Lanes”,
or “LOV Lanes” for the
simpie face that nwo is nota
high number — are a real
treat for me.

Pm thoroughly enjoving
those decent stretches along
the Trans Canada in
Burnaby where you and a
friend can cruise along ar a
fair clip with relative case
while the single-occupant
nay-sayers putter along in
the regular lanes and insist
that car-pool lanes don’t
work,

My new peeve? Drivers
who can’t figure out the
lines on the road separating
the Lov-ers from the riff-
rat.

You see, for the most
part, the Lov lane is segre-

“The reasoning for
this... solidity of
line... is pretty plain:
high-speed, free-
flowing traffic’can
only remain that
way if unimpeded.”

gated from: general traffic by
a solid white line.

Not just your ordinary
white line, no sir, an extra-
fat, not-messin’-around
white line. Solid lines, as we
all should know, are nor to
be crossed.

Upon occasion, the huge
white stripe, that definitive
border between Lov-ers and
loners, becomes broken:
dotted.

lt seems that some fone
drivers are pretending or
erroncously assuming that
these short-lived breaks in
otherwise. solidity make the
Lov lane a regular passing
lane for the general public,
Lov-er or otherwise.

Look, bonehead, that’s
not what it means at ail.

The white line, if you
care to-notice, is always bro-
ken just before and/or j just
after an on-ramp or off-
ramp.

es Keep Lov-ers

signals

This dotted-ness cleverly
accommodates double-occu-
pane vehicles which have just
entered the highway by
allowing them to move over
smoothly and safely to the
Lov Lane

Likewise, when a Lov
driver decides he or she has
had enough of life in the
Lov Lane, has an impending
exit to niake, that dotted
line allows them to

crossover back into the
riff-ratf traffic and
ly to an exit sately and fegal-
Iw

But that’s not rhe worsi
ofits dts those bonchead
Lov-ers that really tick me
off,

You know, those Lov-ers
that occasionally deke into
the loner traffic, pass 2
Lov-er in the Lov lane
by using the centre lane,
then zig back into Lov Lane
and carry on their lovely
way.

Hey vou Lov-er/loner,
vow Il go cross-eyed if you
keep that up.

Fact of the matter is,
folks, that solid white line
works both ways.

Once you are in the Lov
Lane you're in there for the
long haul.

eventual:

ete ET

No short ternt Lov alfairs
allowed.

Aly ¢ Cienl!

We're talking, about com-
mitment!

At anv rate, vou are
not te leave the Lov Lane
until the Ene becomes

The reas cning for this
rigidity of law and sol fidity af
line is pretty plain: high-
speed, free-flowing traftic
can only remain that way if
unimpeded.

Boneheads zipping in and
out of the Lov lane, whether
meeting occupancy require-
ments or not, are working
contrary to the car-pool-lane
concept.

Get in, stay in. Get out
only when the confines trag-
ment.

When the line is broken,

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