HOT lanes encourage carpooling and better reduce highway congestion, Virginia Transportation Secretary Aubrey Layne said. Virginia’s HOT lanes divert an average of nearly 20 percent of traffic off the free lanes, Layne said. He said he would encourage Maryland to use HOT lanes instead of simple toll lanes. “HOT lanes are about moving more people through a corridor.”Maryland hasn’t decided whether to use HOT lanes, Rahn said. He said the HOT lanes also reduced travel times in the free lanes by about a quarter.

Source: Daily Sun October 08, 2017 12:00 UTC