LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — On daily basis, most drivers within the Las Vegas valley go the carpool lanes on the I-15, U.S. 95, or Summerlin Parkway. Now, the Nevada Division of Transportation needs your suggestions on whether or not these lanes ought to keep, change, or be eliminated altogether.
At present, these lanes are reserved for autos with two or extra passengers, bikes, and first responders. Launched to the valley in 2007 with federal funding, southern Nevada now has over 20 miles of HOV lanes.
In 2023, the NDOT Board of Administrators voted to vary HOV lane working hours to weekdays from 6 a.m. to eight a.m. and 4 p.m. to six p.m. as a substitute of 24 hours a day.
The board additionally directed NDOT to conduct a Nationwide Environmental Coverage Act (NEPA) examine to find out the way forward for HOV lanes in Southern Nevada.
That examine additionally includes gathering the general public’s opinion on the lanes. A five-minute survey went stay this fall.
Drivers like Jennifer Voschell assume the lanes are helpful.
“I think they are convenient and helpful especially when there is a lot of traffic,” Voschell stated.
Kelsey McFarland, Public Data Officer on the Nevada Division of Transportation, defined that this survey will assist resolve the way forward for the lanes.
“There are a wide range of possibilities here. Whether that’s eliminating HOV lanes altogether, whether that’s changing the hours or locations or function of those lanes itself. We are not limiting ourselves to possibilities of what this could bring,” McFarland stated.
Site visitors and crash information will even be included within the survey outcomes. The outcomes shall be handed to NDOT’s board, after which will probably be years earlier than drivers will see any modifications to their commute.
