diamond lane

The intended use of a diamond lane is marked by traffic signs.

There's a diamond lane for water buffalo that commute in pairs.

In most areas, violating the rules of a diamond lane is punishable by a fine.

With so much traffic, the conversation in the car, if any, is likely to be about the shortest cuts to reach the diamond lane.

A diamond lane may be intended for a specific type of traffic, or for several types.

Diamond lanes are generally the right-most or left-most lane on the road.

The diamond lanes of India became a warren of muck and ruin.

The so-called diamond lanes, then considered a heretical encroachment on motorists' rights, are now an accepted part of life here.

But lately some states have considered another class of vehicles for the diamond lane, and, interestingly enough, carpooling doesn't factor into the equation.

An earlier novel, "The Diamond Lane," sends up the career-marriage conflict.

A diamond lane is a special lane on a street or highway that is reserved for specific types of traffic.

Danny Pogue looked frozen and glassy-eyed, like a rabbit trapped in the diamond lane of 1-95.

Will Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint find romance speeding along the diamond lanes in the van pool?

Also known as the carpool lane or the diamond lane, the HOV lane isn't for every car on the road.

While she chortles, many political leaders and editorial writers here are asking whether permanent diamond lanes on the Santa Monica Freeway would get a different reception today.

The finished portion of the freeway east of State Highway 6 has eight main lanes with two diamond lanes and six continuous frontage road lanes.

Karen Karbo is the author of two novels, "Trespassers Welcome Here" and "The Diamond Lane."

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And, given the impending gas crisis, they should make the "Diamond Lane" (what we call it down here in California) the "Hybrid Car" lane-rewarding those who save gas.

Rather than being angry, she transforms the experience into a business, Carpool Companions, in which she hires herself out to motorists who want to save time by using the diamond lane.

Diamond Lane returns with their debut album World Without Heroes, the long awaited follow-up to their EP Save This City.

Her other two adult novels, The Diamond Lane (1993) and Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me (2001), were also named New York Times Notable Books.

Encouraging the Use of Fuel-Efficient Vehicles December 2004 Sherman has introduced legislation which would allow states to permit hybrid vehicles to use diamond lanes (high-occupancy vehicle lanes).

Adriana Gianturco, director of the State Department of Transportation during the failed 1976 car pool experiment, remembers receiving death threats and says she feels "vindicated" by the return of diamond lanes.

Freeway Can't Be Widened "There'll be an enormous outcry and enormous congestion, just like in '76," said Mr. Baxter, who has helped install hundreds of miles of diamond lanes on other California freeways in the years since.