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Diamonds are Forever

By Alison

hov_sm.gifAs of this morning, certain GTA highways are now equipped with that most obvious of traffic-lightening methods, the carpool lane, but not everyone thinks it’s such a good idea.
As for us, we fondly remember waking up to Metro Morning’s weekly serial The Diamond Lane on Wednesday mornings in the mid-’90s, and we are disappointed that these new carpool lanes are being dubbed HOV lanes. It will always be a diamond lane to us. Plus, High Occupancy Vehicle sounds ridiculous. Since we’re kind of bored today and we love a good acronym game, entertain us with all the better things HOV could stand for. Like… Horrific Ornery Vaughan.
By the way, the original reason for this post was to make some joke about blow-up dolls in passenger seats, but now we can’t think of one. Feel free to have at it in the comments, though.

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  • Josh

    “allow me to reintroduce myself / my name is HOV / h-to the-o-vee”
    -jay z
    coincides with the headline, don’t you think?

  • http://www.newmindspace.com kevin bracken

    i would hate to be the guy who gets into an accident with a blowup doll in tow

  • becky

    Can’t help but think of the long defunct (was it the name?) Guelph band House of Velvet whenever I see those signs.

  • Fen

    The perverted side of me immediately came up with “Hand (or Head) On Vagina”; and the non-perverted side couldn’t come up with anything.

  • http://krupo.blogspot.com/ Krupo

    There’s a second glaring problem with the statistic cited in the insidetoronto.ca article: it mentions collisions in “HOV lanes adjacent to regular lanes without a barrier separating them”. Well there’s no big concrete wall, but the 403 and 404 lanes are set up so you can only enter at designated points, not flat out everywhere, like you can in Seattle, to name just one example of what I think the Dallas study refers to.
    Talk about a completely empty argument.
    …
    Also, this Simpsons scene summarizes my views towards HOV and humour:
    Chairman: Dr. Nick, this malpractice committee has received a few
    complaints against you. [reads from clipboard] Of the 160
    gravest charges, the most troubling are performing major
    operations with a knife and fork from a seafood restaurant.
    Riviera: But I cleaned them with my napkin.
    Chairman: Misuse of the cadavers.
    Riviera: I get here earlier when I drive in the carpool lane.
    – “Twenty-Two Short Films About Springfield”

  • http://hendsbee.blogspot.com Kyle

    I commute against the major rush-hour traffic (although it is still no picnic), as I live downtown and work in Richmond Hill. This afternoon as I was heading home, at a little after 4:30pm, four cars in a row passed me in the HOV lane, and all had only one person. In addition to that, two different cars changed to and from the HOV lane where they are not supposed to. Personally I think that 4:30pm is already rush-hour, yet I did not see a single OPP Cruiser monitoring the lane. I think they should have 407-type cameras taking pictures of all cars at every overpass through the HOV lane – that would be a great way to ensure it is used properly. If its not used properly, what is the point of it?

  • Fen

    I agree with you, Kyle. They should have cameras in place to catch the cheaters.
    And am I the only one who thinks the minimum number of passengers should be more than just two?