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... However, because little information was available about travel time, reliability, patronage benefits, and safety impacts resulting from allowed use of shoulders, many jurisdictions have been reluctant to embrace bus use of shoulders. Buses bypassing traffic congestion on shoulder lanes can help make bus use more attractive.
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... A number of communities allow general traffic to use shoulder lanes during peak commute times. This TCRP synthesis report focuses only on shoulder use applications restricted to buses.
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