Scott en Aztl‡n
I am almost always in agreement with you when it comes to speed limits and KRETP. But you are clearly wrong about HOV lanes being the left lanes of the GP lanes. Kevin Flynn has cited Colorado VC, which I have copied here:
HOV lane behavior... 4438Scott en Aztl‡n In Colorado, as I mentioned earlier, it is placed right in the KRETP law itself: CRS 42-4-1013. Pbutting lane - definitions - penalty. (1) A person...
(b) "Pbutting lane" means the farthest to the left lane if there are two or more adjacent lanes of traffic moving in the same direction in one roadway; ***except that, if such left lane is restricted to high occupancy vehicle use or is designed for left turns only, the pbutting lane shall be the lane immediately to the right of such high occupancy lane or left-turn lane.***
HOV lane behavior... 4439Thank you for the citation. But paraphrasing another poster, most of the country does not live in Colorado. In Colorado. Where does CA law say that? The fact that there are...
That states, in clear terms, that the HOV lane is not the pbutting lane. That's for Colorado. But in the absence of any wording from California stating that the HOV lane is the pbutting lane, I would buttume that Colorado's code is pretty much standard for most states. Not to mention the yellow lines between the GP and HOV lanes pretty clearly shows that they are separate roadways.
If there were two or more HOV lanes in each direction, normal lane discipline (KRETP, etc) would be neccesary between those HOV lanes. But lane discipline does not and can not apply between two separate roadways.
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