ontcanuck

I hear that as long as your vehicle is at full capacities another word sport cars with 2 seats its legal?

squalo3

There's nothing legal about HOV lanes, they just a pain in the but, and a waste of road space, in this already busy province.

Here's what HOV really stands for

Hell On Vehicles.

Zeeman28a

Well under normal circumstances, HOV is 2 people, so yeah it's legal. But no mention of 2 people max in a car during PanAm Games.

https://www.ontario.ca/travel-and-re...122.1436059169

If you risk it and get stopped, let us know.

VETT-ED

They posted on 680 news that its 3 or more regardless of seats in your vehicle.

95ragtop

My feeling is if you want to try that, then they will be looking to charge you with another infraction so why try it.

transamtom

Crap running a stop sign was only 2 points a few years ago,3 points for driving on pavement we paid for is pure ********.

RedZ4me

and for what? Nobody gives 2 craps for these PanScam games, ticket sales are way down so they are now discounting them 25%. I'm sure a bigger discount coming soon.

squalo3

We have regions that are falling apart at the seams (i.e. infrustructure, traffic, etc.) yet the governments seem to think it just fine to WASTE billions of tax payers' dollars on an event that not many people really give a damn about.

The media is doing a countdown to the START of the PanAm/Para PanAm games, I'm doing a countdown to the END!

transamtom

Tickets should be free we already paid for them

vt65

it's all about getting dollars into the GTHA, hope we don't spend more on it than is realized by the business people .... when you subtract the loss incurred as a result of the people that stay away from the GTHA mess i bet there's a net loss, well at least the Airport trolley is working.

walleyejack

Well, they lost a lot of money coming in to the coffers on Thursday nights !!

doublec4

The whole HOV lane concept is flawed in my opinion.

The original intent, from my understanding, was to encourage carpooling to get vehicles off the road and thereby reduce emissions. In reality, not that many people are able to carpool based on how infrequently people fly by in that lane while I'm sitting in traffic.

So essentially they've taken an entire lane away and removed maybe a few thousand vehicles from the road, but have forced a few hundred thousand (or more) to sit in traffic and idle (the most inefficient thing to do).

Then you have the solid white line through most of the HOV lane.. HOV lane riders don't plan their exit and try and cut across 3-4 lanes at the last minute to make their exit. It makes everyone else slam on the brakes behind them and creates issues.