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Carpool lanes - dumbest idea, ever.
Leftists constantly say that that building more roads just makes traffic worse.
What’s Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
The “fundamental rule” of traffic: building new roads just makes people drive more
http://www.vox.com/2014/10/23/6994159/traffic-roads-induced-demand
Why building new roads doesn’t ease congestion
http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/roadbuilding-futility.html
30 mph gets the most vehicles past a given point over time.
Solution? M79 grenade launcher. (bloop)....bang! lane’s clear.
CC
Here’s a clue, if the cars to your right are passing you, you don’t belong in the car pool, lane.
Better be careful ,the crazies will build Barracks at your Work Place and move you and your family there
Carpool Funnel Syndrome.
SoCal has decided to simply charge for the car pool lane now on some freeways.
Doesn’t matter how many are in the car.
The great leftist defender of the poor government has decided to build a two tiered system for wealthier vs poorer.
What a joke!...I travel the 55 freeway in Orange County every Monday thru Friday early am and every other car in the car pool lane has tinted windows and one driver!
I spent last weekend in Los Angeles, traveling between Azusa, LAX and Orange County. I’ve still got lingering anger issues from driving those freeways. Thank GOD I don’t have to do it on a regular basis any more!
Put Freepers in charge and we’ll have those HOV lanes running 60MPH minimum within weeks.
Meanwhile its amusing seeing incompetent affirmative action gov’t employees screwing liberal save_the_planet goobers in the HOV lanes. A pox on both their houses, preferably Ebola
Then the new series of ‘buy into the carpool lane’ programs started - hey, slap a natural gas sticker on your car and fill out a form with a picture of the sticker, and you too could buy your way into the lane. Once again, the travel time became 45 minutes.
Problem in Southern California are those people driving in the HOV lane that have no business there.
Vehicles with one occupant with no HOV Sticker.
And there are tons of them.
I don’t see the problem - California’s a liberal state, all they have to do is apply a liberal solution: redefine the mile or redefine the hour.
There was only one reason for a HOV lane.... To keep the bus on schedule. Later some found a way to charge for it.
It is mathematically proven that car pool lanes slow down overall flow. But it allows the bus to keep a schedule. We could talk math here, but most aren’t taught that in the US of A.
An hour in the morning and an hour and a half on way home (because I like to take the scenic route).
No HOV lanes for me.
If it comes down to a tug-of-war between the feds and the Jerry Brownian Calif***ians for who keeps the loot from federal gas taxes, I'm all in favor of it staying in corrupt Washington, D.C. rather than be squandered by CALTRANS.
Not that DOT would make better use of the funds than CALTRANS, because I'm sure they would not. They would undoubtedly be sent to other states to be wasted on bike paths or light rail construction which ultimately will become a money pit for those state and local governments to fill at the cost of foregoing worthwhile highway projects.
However, there is a positive side to Washington not funding Calif***ia's ever-expanding carpool network. As one of the largest recipients of federal transportation dollars, having their portion of the pot cut off for a minor infraction of the rules written into federal law to satisfy mostly anti-highway enviros and anti-growth Malthusians would sound the alarm that federal money is not free: accept it at your own risk.
The sooner large states such as Calif***ia get shorted by the feds and consequently have to go their own way toward funding local road projects the sooner we can bid adieu to the federal fuel tax. With the Interstate Highway System having been finished for twenty-five years, isn't it about time?