Look LA traffic is AWFUL.
It is terrible, and nothing will improve it.
That is just the way it is.
Utility Theory of Work — some laws just won’t be ignored!
In my experience, people use the carpool lane and still go the same speed. The problem is and will always be people and their driving habits.
4 or 5 miles per hour.
Speaking of vehicles in the HOV lane on the 405, you might want to see this : http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ImdOewVhoS4
It cost $1.1 billion for that carpool lane. Since it doesn’t work, I think they should just take it off.
Carpool lanes make traffic worst. People have died because of them.
The only purpose of carpool lanes is to allow politicians easy access to the highway funds for graft and various payoffs.
Biggest problem with traffic is incompetent drivers who are afraid to be on the road and drive under the speed limit. My dad used to warn me not to drive behind old men in hats, then he got mad when I told him he had become that old man in a hat.
I regularily take my daughter to UCLA med center, a few miles off the 405 & Wilshire, about 113 miles from home. It’s always a crawl on the 405 from about Van Nuys on. In rush hour it can take over an hour to go the last 15 miles and it doesn’t get better once I get off on Wilshire. I truly hate that place.
Sure there is. The Feds figure Ebola will clear the "free"ways.
The carpool lane never was about relieving traffic.
Unless you could say that it actually made traffic worst for non-carpoolers because it took away one of their lanes.
How does a car containing a mom and a bunch of kids get any additional vehicles off the road, anyway? Answer: It doesn’t. Yet it can travel in the carpool lane.
There’s a saying among traffic planners that curing congestion by adding capacity is like curing obesity by loosening your belt.
La traffic study about 20 years ago. What causes stop and go traffic, conclusion: constant breaking. Serious.
Read between the lines. Obviously this requires a trillion dollars to build light rail, subways, bike lanes, and high speed rail between Coalinga and Mendota. Oh, and of course, raise taxes.
Add a n extra lane to the freeway-but restrict who can actually used it-act surprised when there is no relief of traffic. Liberal problem solving in action.