What is an HOV lane and who can use them?
The High Occupancy Vehicle lane is a priority lane to give high occupancy vehicles (HOVs two or more people per car), trucks and buses faster access to the motorway. Car-pool vehicles (two or more people per car) can use this lane to bypass the signals. The benefit of the lane is to move more people rather than more cars. The priority lane for trucks, buses and car-pool vehicles will be operating soon at the Mt Wellington and South Eastern Highway northbound on-ramps. Motorcycles can also use the priority lanes, except at Grafton Road southbound on-ramp which is a trucks only priority lane.
