[HEY4QDEMS]

Technically, yes, you are allowed to use them when you have your blind passenger in te car, but there is not one less car on the road because of it.

How so, if he isn't riding with me, then I'm sharing the road with the taxi that he's riding in.

Eight years ago, during Christmas break, my wife took my daughter and four of her friends into Boston to see the Nutcracker at the Boston Ballet. It was a weekday morning show, and she drove in during rush hour and took the HOV lane. Surely you couldn't possibly prefer to have five parents driving kids in five separate cars in general traffic over one parent driving five kids in the HOV lane.

I really think you are being short sighted, the purpose is to provide incentive to take passengers in your car to reduce the need for additional vehicles on the road not to cart licensed passengers exclusively.

[Flyer]

my wife took my daughter and four of her friends into Boston to see the Nutcracker at the Boston Ballet. It was a weekday morning show, and she drove in during rush hour and took the HOV lane. Surely you couldn't possibly prefer to have five parents driving kids in five separate cars in general traffic over one parent driving five kids in the HOV lane.

She used the HOV lane for her convenience, not to reduce the number of cars on the road. The lanes are not there to make travel easier just because one is hauling kids. Same with you having your blind friend as a passenger. Using the HOV lane makes your life easier, but does not take another car off the road.

In both situations, if you were to honor the spirit in which HOV lanes are intended, you should be in regular traffic and leave the lanes to those that have actually lessened the traffic load.