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	<title>Matthew Yglesias &#187; Minneapolis</title>
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		<title>Counterflow Bus Lanes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dedicated bus lanes are a pretty good idea that can have a pretty dramatic impact on the quality of bus service and don&#8217;t carry a large fiscal cost. But most places I&#8217;ve seen them, and certainly DC&#8217;s bus lanes southbound on 9th Street and northbound on 7th Street, the paint is regularly ignored by drivers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dedicated bus lanes are a pretty good idea that can have a pretty dramatic impact on the quality of bus service and don&#8217;t carry a large fiscal cost. But most places I&#8217;ve seen them, and certainly DC&#8217;s bus lanes southbound on 9th Street and northbound on 7th Street, the paint is regularly ignored by drivers which sort of defeats the purpose. How to increase compliance? Well, I saw this in Minneapolis:</p>
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<p>The lane <em>goes the wrong way</em> on a one way street. That means that drivers inclined to switch out of a car lane and into the bus lane are running the risk of a deadly head-on collision with a bus, thus creating a good incentive to follow the law. I&#8217;m not certain that was the intention of establishing the lane in a counterflow direction (I can think of other rationales) but it&#8217;s certainly one effect and maybe something other cities should consider. </p>
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