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US 75 HOV lane to be converted
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A plan to improve U.S. High-
the ability for HOV users to
move at reasonable speeds.
Officials from the North
way 75 between the Sam Ray- Central Texas Council of Gov-
burn Tollway and Interstate ernments (NCTCOG) and Texas
Highway 635 will be moving Department of Transportation
forward after an agreement was (TxDOT) met with staff from
reached between local officials FHWA to move the project for-
and the Federal Highway Ad- ward. The agreement calls for
ministration (FHWA). the lanes to be general purpose
The corridor’s underused - no toll, no HOV requirement
HOV lanes will effectively be- - about 94 percent of the time,
come general purpose lanes, but to charge southbound sm-
although a small toll will be gle-occupant vehicles - SOVs
required about 6 percent of the - using the lane a minimal
time.
toll for selected hours week-
Because the HOV lanes were day mornings and northbound
built with funding through the SOVs using the lane a small
Congestion Mitigation and Air toll for selected hours in the like the federal mandate, “but Webb said. “The RTC and our to identify the elements of the
Quality Improvement Program, evening. Vehicles with two or given the current alternative transportation partners have permanent solution on U.S. 75.”
current federal law dictates more occupants will be able to of leaving the HOV lanes un- developed a solution that will TxDOT is completing an
that they cannot become pure use the new lanes without being derused and ineffective, the improve the use, capacity and environmental review of the
general-purpose lanes. Feder- charged. The lanes will remain solution to move forward as re- reliability of one of the county’s corridor and will be ready to
al law requires that they must open as non-tolled general-pur- quired by FHWA seems to be the most important transportation begin transition of the HOV
retain an HOV component with pose lanes for the rest of the best and only option to legally corridors. It was critical to our lanes in 2019. Initially, the new
_ day and weekends, operating provide material congestion re- residents that any agreement lanes will operate from Bethany
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McGathey, Liz & Roark, Chris. The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 7, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 24, 2019, newspaper, March 24, 2019; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1622504/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Colony Public Library.