The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, February 1, 1997            TAG: 9702010008
SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A8   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                            LENGTH:   18 lines

OPEN THE HOV LANES

I, too, agree with the Jan. 8 and 22 letters to the editor regarding the non-use of the HOV lanes, and am very much in favor of the ``powers that be'' in the highway authority taking a new, hard look at the current use of the HOV lanes. I travel 64 and 44 every day between Chesapeake and Virginia Beach, and every day I see the ridiculous situation of three congested lanes, and one empty lane, of traffic.

The time has come to allow ``all'' highway taxpayers the use of ``all'' of our roads.

JUDY A. BROWNING

Chesapeake, Jan. 22, 1997


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