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A city scraps its HOV lanes. Disaster ensues.
A new study from MIT researchers, published Thursday in Science, showed the impact on a city's traffic when high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes were removed. The average speed of Jakarta drivers during the evening rush hour plummeted from 13 mph to 7 mph. In the morning, speeds fell from 18 mph to 12 mph. The impacts weren't felt solely in the HOV lanes, but across the city.
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Until this is tried in the USA there is no reason to believe that a test trial in another country is symptomatic of what would happen here.