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Well to hell with me too then, because, no, you shouldn't have had the right, nor should anyone else. We all pay the same road taxes and we all have the same right to use every damn lane on the highway. Carpool lanes are elitist and cause more traffic problems than they solve. Anyone who drives during rush hour knows this without being told or running a "study" on it. I want to ask you and anyone else who beieves carpool lanes actually do any good: What would happen if even 50 percent of drivers used the carpool lanes? Would it reduce traffic? No, it would make the carpool lanes so congested they would be useless and people would spill back over into the other lanes.

Lots of people CAN'T carpool. I used to drive to the Bay area every day from the other side of the valley(CA), a commute of about 2 hours one way. I didn't have anyone to carpool with and there are thousands of people in the same boat, but still we can't use a lane we bought and paid for with our taxes.

If I can't use all lanes on all highways, then I want a refund on my taxes.

Carpool lanes are elitist and cause more traffic problems than they solve. Anyone who drives during rush hour knows this without being told or running a "study" on it. I want to ask you and anyone else who beieves carpool lanes actually do any good

That is a good point, but it is not the crux of my position.

I often wonder if HOV lanes would really do any good if more people car pooled, it is after all only a single lane where I drive.

My point is that if the laws allow multi passenger cars to use it and I have multiple people in my car and the traffic is light in that lane, I'm using it period.

As for Charlie, who can see by the way, but will never be able to get a drivers license, why should he be punished even more. Instead of sitting home and collecting welfare and SS which he is entitled to do, he chooses to go to work, pay taxes, and make his own way.

He always paid me for the gas which by the way is taxed by the state and fed supposedly to pay for maintaining the roads and highways that some people here feel he shouldn't have the right to use, not to mention the ADA violations that such a position would cause.

But, no we must have even more laws and rules to restrict freedom from someone who although they paid the gas tax, and or taxi fare, might not have a drivers license.