March 6, 2024
Provide Input on Strategies to Reduce
Single-Occupancy Vehicle Usage in Lake County
The Lake County Division of Transportation (LCDOT) is seeking your thoughts on a draft report that provides strategies and recommendations to reduce single-occupancy vehicle trips in the county.
When transportation agencies refer to single-occupancy vehicles, or SOVs for short, we mean people primarily driving alone in their cars, trucks, and vans for their work commutes. And in Lake County, a whopping 80 percent of those trips are taken in SOVs!
A few years ago, LCDOT initiated a study to dive into this topic further to see if there is anything we can do to reduce that 80 percent number. After engaging the public and numerous stakeholders and researching SOV reduction programs throughout the country, LCDOT has compiled a draft report that is ready for public comment.
Reducing SOV trips - even by a small percentage, has shown to reduce trip times, air pollution and carbon emissions. We greatly appreciate your time reviewing the draft report and submitting feedback. One thing to keep in mind is while commuting patterns have changed since the COVID-19 pandemic, traffic volumes have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels.
The public comment period is open from March 6 - April 8, 2024. Check out the links below.
Learn More
Find in-depth information on the study process and documents and commuting programs across the country my visiting lakecountyil.gov/MYCommuteLC.
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