Michigan has been slow to take steps that reduce automobile congestion on the highways and pollution in the air, but last week lawmakers paved the way for the state to create special carpool lanes on state highways, a solution already popular in 29 states and Canada.
According to excerpts from the story:
The world’s automotive capital may be getting more serious about car pool lanes.
Bills approved by the Legislature last week would authorize Michigan to have high-occupancy vehicle, or HOV, lanes.
There already is one HOV lane in the state — a five-mile stretch of Michigan Avenue in Detroit near the Ambassador Bridge that coincides with the largest construction project in the history of the state Department of Transportation.
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