There is an HOV lane on I-5 between downtown Portland, OR, and just short of the Interstate Bridge across the Columbia River, a distance of about 5 miles. It is CONSTANTLY at a crawl, bumper to bumper, morning and evening, starting when the HOV lane timing kicks in, and continuing until the jam ends where the HOV lane stops. It's been going on for years. It will continue to be jammed until the Sun burns out, since there is no leftist bureaucracy that will ever admit to perhaps having a poor idea that experience has proved to be wrong.
It's like sitting in traffic in Portlandia, at 5:00, with one third of the traffic lane out of bounds because of those F#CKING bike lanes, and out of boredom, counting the number of bicycles you see. Sometimes, in 30 minutes, you can get all the way to 10 by actual count. At least one is some anorexic fairy in orange spandex, on $10,000 of carbon fiber and a rear view mirror on his glasses...
(I've dreamed of popping my door open and sending him to his Atheistic Reward...)
the 405 north of Seattle has that beat...the two lanes on the far left are for the special people that spend extra money so they can zoom by the regular peons...the regular peons are very congested because of the two left lanes being taken over....there are signs all over saying that “these lanes open to all” which means you can drive on it, but you’ll be sent a bill thru their web cam system..