There has been a lot about the benefits of car sharing recently and in fact there are two schemes already operating in the UK in Bristol and Leeds, with other due to start a car sharing scheme in Birmingham, West Yorkshire and Hertfordshire. This means that a whole lane is needed to remain empty in order to encourage drivers to use it, but it also means that in places where there is serious congestion and minimal take up of the car sharing scheme that these lanes are going to either stay empty or be used by drivers, causing chaos.
The motoring organisation the AA, have said that these schemes will not work because they are wasting the capacity of the UK’s roads. The AA’s Edmund King said: ‘In theory, car-sharing lanes make sense, but in practice they are used and abused, so they waste road capacity and are a nightmare to enforce.’
With new cameras becoming available too, it will be difficult for a driver to use the car share lane, as these cameras are supposed to be able to confirm if there is more than one real person in the car, so there are bound to be a surge in more fines for drivers who accidentally use the wrong lane when visit a different place.
Source [What Car]
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