[Talk-us] Splitting a HOV/express land without physical barrier

[Paul Johnson]

Be sure to use access:lanes=* and hov:lanes=* too, so consumers can tell
*which* lane is restricted.  Related: Bicycle lanes...

On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 9:02 AM Tod Fitch <tod at fitchfamily.org> wrote:

> I use the hov:lanes style tagging where there is no physical barrier. See
> the lanes section [1] on the same wiki page that you linked.
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:hov#hov:lanes=*
>
> On Sep 23, 2023, at 10:09 PM, Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot895 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I see that currently, for one part of the I-405 express lane
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1007590306#map=16/47.7016/-122.1782>
> in Kirkland, WA, the express lanes are mapped as a separate way, even
> though there's no physical separation from the regular travel lanes except
> for a double solid white line. I think the accepted practice is that if
> there's no physical separation, then the lanes/road should be one single
> way, and not split out; however, the HOV wiki page
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:hov> says that if entry/exit is
> permitted only at certain points, then it's recommended to map it as a
> separate way. For these express lanes, entry/exit is not permitted across
> the double solid white line, and only in the dashed line areas, but it's
> not a single point; it can be a quarter-mile long.
>
> In this case, should the express lanes on this road be fully separated out
> into its own ways, or should this be part of the main road?
>
> --
> Saikrishna Arcot
>
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