Car pool lane plan for Brum.BIRMINGHAM'S first US-style "carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. lane" could be introduced in the city within a year. The four-and-a-half mile high-occupancy lane would be piloted on the Heartlands Spine Road if the city's cabinet, as expected, rubber-stamps a report recommending the plan next Monday. The Conservative-Liberal Democrat administration has signalled the possible removal of bus lanes across the city next year and the HOV lane HOV lane n. An expressway lane restricted to vehicles with at least a set minimum of occupants, usually two. - which it eventually wants to introduce on the major arterial routes - will instead give priority to vehicles carrying two or more people. The report to be considered at cabinet next week does admit lane enforcement would be a problem - camera technology to detect the number of people in a car is being developed but is not yet available. The policy might also lure people off public transport and back into their cars. Transportation officers have chosen the Heartlands Spine Road - from Ashted Circus to Spitfire Spitfire or Supermarine Spitfire British fighter aircraft in World War II. A low-wing monoplane first flown in 1936, it was adopted by the RAF in 1938. Island - because it represents a commuter corridor serving an area of relatively high car ownership with limited public transport provision. If approved, initial design and feasibility work will be completed in January with the detailed design to be completed in June next year |
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