{"id":63298,"date":"2025-07-13T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63298\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:17:09","slug":"new-carpool-lanes-open-up-to-sr-56-commuters-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63298\/","title":{"rendered":"New carpool lanes open up to SR-56 commuters \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 2, new high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes opened in both directions of the SR-56 freeway between El Camino Real and Carmel Valley Road. The $28 million project aims to improve traffic flow on the busy thoroughfare and, hopefully, keep people from using local streets to get around freeway traffic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The new HOV lanes on SR-56 are now open. (Courtesy Caltrans District 11)\" width=\"4032\" height=\"569\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DMT-L-HOVLANES-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9397798\" \/>The new HOV lanes on SR-56 are now open. (Courtesy Caltrans District 11)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImproving regional mobility and providing transportation options is the priority of this project,\u201d\u00a0said District 11 Director Ann Fox in a news release.\u00a0\u201cIn addition to the new HOV lanes, this project will create a facility that supports future transit options and other multi-modal options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Work kicked off last spring on the expansion project, repurposing the existing median in the 2.2-mile stretch between El Camino Real and the Gonzales Creek Bridge, just west of Carmel Valley Road.<\/p>\n<p>The new lanes will be reserved for buses, vehicles with at least two passengers to encourage more carpooling, motorcycles and clean air stickered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The project also included the completion last spring of the long-awaited extension of the SR-56 bike path, providing a missing link under I-5, safely connecting riders to the 30-mile North Coast bike trail and the Sorrento Valley Transit Station.<\/p>\n<p>Phase 2 of long-term improvements on the 56 is currently unfunded\u2014those plans include building a direct connector from westbound SR-56 to northbound I-5, replacing the Del Mar Heights Road overcrossing and constructing an additional westbound lane on the 56.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The new HOV lanes on SR-56 are now open. (Courtesy Caltrans District 11)\" width=\"4032\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DMT-L-HOVLANES-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9397799\" \/>The new HOV lanes on SR-56 are now open. (Courtesy Caltrans District 11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 2, new high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes opened in both directions of the SR-56 freeway between El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7350,7807,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-63298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-del-mar-times","12":"tag-del-mar-times-news","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114848244937632020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}