Extension of HOV to 6:30pm

Someone with new information about this topic?

If a specific petition is drafted and downloadable from this site, perhaps drivers/riders would consider carrying multiple copies with them to request signatures while in cars or slug lines and to distribute blank forms to others that may not utilize this site, but willing to support the cause. Of course someone to send the final copies to would need to be identified...

These are just a few thoughts, but the critical piece of this would be the wording of the petition-- it needs to be carefully written-- prior to starting the process of obtaining signatures.

And a request for those that don't see this time extension as necessary due to your earlier travel home times, or your view that better enforcement of violators is all that is needed. Please consider supporting those that support the slugging system and who are trying to make it better. Some people have the flexibility to work earlier hours, while others do not. And as for the cry for better enforcement, that issue is still going to be there no matter what time the restriction is lifted.

We can draft a letter addressed to the people we need to address it to, detailing our complaint and the reason why. Then, we could utilize one of those petition web sites whereas you can create a petition and then you get a link to that petition. Once you have that, then we could post the link as a new topic directing people if they are interested to sign the petition.

Any other ideas?

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Well said, everyone.

I really don't know how this petition thing works, but obviously we will need a lot of people to get involved. One idea, as I have previously stated, would be for anyone who knows the webmaster of this site to contact him/her about posting this idea for a petition on this site's main page. I think that if we use as many modes of communication as possible that this idea would really take off as more people hear about it.

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Dina

Well said, everyone.

I really don't know how this petition thing works, but obviously we will need a lot of people to get involved. One idea, as I have previously stated, would be for anyone who knows the webmaster of this site to contact him/her about posting this idea for a petition on this site's main page. I think that if we use as many modes of communication as possible that this idea would really take off as more people hear about it.

As someone else pointed out in another thread, morning restrictions are longer than the afternoon by a half hour. Doesn't logic tell you that if a system needs that much time in the morning, the same is needed in the evening?

In my opinion, the evening commute is consistently worse than the morning (granted not by much), yet the HOV restriction time is less when it is needed the most. Also think about the extra single car traffic added to the HOV lanes during the mixing bowl construction.

Did VDOT count that extra traffic congestion and its impact to valid HOV lane users in their study?

I'd be willing to fight this battle to extend the time...