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Here's something you might never have realized: In 2005, Metro paid $6 million for a unique safety system designed to keep people from entering HOV lanes headed in the wrong direction. The system had two lines of defense: First, traditional red-and-white barricade arms that would signal when a lane was closed in a particular direction, and second, guillotine-like devices that straddled the lanes and would lower nets to catch cars going the wrong way. It's an interesting concept, though the whole net thing sounds a little too Wile E. Coyote to be true — and it seems the Metro system didn't work out much better than most of those Acme contraptions in the cartoons. As KHOU reports, Metro has pulled the plug on the safety system just a year and a half after it was installed. more ›