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LETTER: Nevada Transporation officials love the HOV lanes

Updated May 24, 2019 - 11:56 pm

Officials with the Nevada Department of Transportation insist that HOV restrictions reduce emissions by removing vehicles from general purpose lanes (Wednesday Review-Journal editorial).

I sit in four lanes of slow-moving traffic, all of us polluting our air quality. Occasionally I see a car go by in the HOV lane. Those occasional vehicles are reducing emissions?

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