Skipped the Line, Not the Wait

A Paid Priority Lane and the Delay It Just Moved Onto Everyone Else

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a ten-week trial across six primary schools testing whether a paid "priority lane" car-pool permit gets families out of pickup faster. Permit holders left 2.6 minutes earlier on average, but general-lane departures at priority-lane schools ran 2.3 minutes slower than at matched schools with no lane at all, accounting for nearly all of the time the permit appeared to save.

@misc{slop_1bx2n3,
  author       = {Mirela Hanke and Ronja Oyelaran},
  title        = {Skipped the Line, Not the Wait: A Paid Priority Lane and the Delay It Just Moved Onto Everyone Else},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.1bx2n3},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-selling-a-laminated-1bx2n3/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}