Staying in the carpool lane while switching freeways helps all motorists

Q. Hi Honk: Can you find retired if determination is simply a database of carpool-lane flyovers somewhere? When backups agelong for miles, a motion a mile oregon truthful earlier an interchange is mode excessively close. I person looked online, but nary joy. Thanks!

– Greg Adams, Mission Viejo

A. Is congestion arsenic frustrating arsenic the Angels’ starting rotation? The terms of state higher than the apex of a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar skyhook? A fender-bender with a caller car arsenic irritating arsenic an wounded to Clayton Kershaw?

Yes – of people Honk tin find retired if specified a database exists, and successful information got 1 from the Orange County Transportation Authority for you, Greg.

Thankfully, what you called flyovers – paths for switching freeways without leaving the carpool lane – are becoming much plentiful.

“One of the large causes of congestion is cars traveling crossed lanes of traffic,” Joel Zlotnik, a spokesperson for that agency, told Honk.

Not lone bash carpoolers benefit, but truthful bash solo drivers who get to woody with less vehicles cutting retired of a carpool lane successful beforehand of them to get into a regular lane earlier switching backmost into a carpool lane connected the 2nd freeway.

In Orange County alone, determination are 2 twelve carpool-lane-to-carpool-lane connectors, excessively galore to rattle disconnected here.

Greg, Honk indispensable marque you committedness to memorize them, oregon person your co-pilot look them up online portion you are down the wheel. If you agree, you tin spot the database astatine Honk’s online location astatine ocregister.com/tag/honk.

(For those online, present is the list:

— I-5 North to I-405 North/I-405 South to I-5 South– I-405 North to 55 North/55 South to I-405 South– 55 South to I-405 North / 55 South to I-405 South– I-405 North to 55 North/I-405 South to 55 North– I-5 South to 55 South/55 North to I-5 North– 57 S to I-5 South/5 N to 57 North– 57 South to 91 West/ 91 East to 57 North– 91 West to I-5 North/I-5 South to 91 East– I-5 North to 91 West/91 East to I-5 South– 22 West to I-405 North/I-405 South to 22 East– I-405 North to I-605 North/I-605 South to I-405 South– 55 North to 91 East/91 West to 55 South; these are high-occupancy tolled connectors, portion of the 91 Express Lanes)

Q. On the northbound 73 toll road, connected the span implicit Laguna Canyon Road, workers chopped trenches each the mode crossed the highway. They refilled those trenches with asphalt; but those asphalt patches look mode beneath people and origin rather a bid of successive jolts erstwhile you thrust implicit them. Temporary spot until imperishable spot brings it to people level?

– Mike Jasiewicz, Laguna Niguel

A. Correct.

Sheilah Fortenberry, a Caltrans spokeswoman, talked with a subordinate of the agency’s operation portion and relayed that a polyester factual overlay was added to widen the bridge’s lifespan.

The span was grounded down, the overlay was enactment connected apical and past it was grounded down again. Mike, you indispensable person gone implicit the bridge, which is successful northbound Laguna Beach, earlier the last grinding. According to the inspector’s diary, that last grinding, the bridge’s finishing touch, occurred connected Aug. 13.

In all, 20 spots connected the 73 volition person gone done this process. Tentatively, each of the enactment is to beryllium completed by Nov. 3.

Smooth travels, Mike.

Honkin’ fact: There were 1,386,383 hybrid vehicles and 400,197 electrical ones registered successful California arsenic of Jan. 1 (Source: authorities of California).

To inquire Honk questions, scope him astatine honk@ocregister.com. He lone answers those that are published. To spot Honk online: ocregister.com/tag/honk. Twitter: @OCRegisterHonk