Sections of Detroit's Michigan Ave. getting carpool lanes

A small section of Michigan Avenue, in Detroit and Dearborn, will be getting carpooling lanes to test out their feasibility with car-loving Detroiters.

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Other big cities around the country have had them for years, but we're about to embark on a limited, Detroit-style test of carpool -- or high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) -- lanes on a stretch of Michigan Avenue between downtown and Dearborn.

The goal of HOV lanes is to give people in vehicles with more than one occupant a lane for faster travel, an incentive to not drive alone -- taking the bus or carpooling instead.

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