The never ending argument .... Ontario is not a place where the recognize motorcycle as a smaller footprint commuting vehicle. Never was and never will, just like lane splitting, filtering ... whatever. The motorcycles are strictly used as weekend toys, as such they are excluded from any HOV perks etc.
Trying to save the 20 pages of bitching ....
Yeah ... except the people motorcyclists complaining about it are usually the people who use their bikes as a utility hahah
I don't have any HOV on my commute so i can't complain but that, the gov't won't see and doesn't care about right!?
-My bike averages maybe 4-5l/100km, costs me about $12 of gas per week, 0$ in parking downtown, shorter commute
-Car in gas with approx 7-8l/100km (lets be real, its stop and go traffic with a car consumes more than that, just being conservative, say $24 in gas), pay for parking downtown, slightly longer commute.
-GO train + bus costs me about $90 per week and takes the longest.
--*wildcard* taking the bicycle takes costs me $15 per month in storage/showers, takes the -same amount of time as driving the car (still shorter than go transit), keeps me healthier. zero emissions other than my farts.
So in the grand scheme of things, HOVs don't change much except the amount of time spent in traffic, might also help with emissions since smoother driving = better gas/mileage... and less lane changes = safer as well. I gotta say, if it does encourage the usage of things like smartcommute.ca (which i did for a year or so) why not?! but in most cases people don't like taking strangers in their cars.