[NCjim]

A dubious honor...

The complete list is here.

[wolfpat]

Hey, I've got an idea. Why don't we get a train system that nobody wants to ride, and raise taxes to support it. {/sarcasm}
I think this is probably a bogus study in support of that boondoggle.

[Capn TrVth]

Boston was listed as Mass, N.H. Maine, that's not quite right I.M.O. -it should have included the BOSCON.. (Boston to N.Y.)
That would have skwered the numbers BIG time.

[Capn TrVth]

Boston was listed as Mass, N.H. Maine, that's not quite right I.M.O. -it should have included the BOSCON.. (Boston to N.Y.)
That would have skwered the numbers BIG time.

[wolfpat]

NC Ping?

[TommyDale]

Do these costs include repairs and maintenance of cars that get the crap beat out of them on the horrible North Carolina roads?

[NRA Patriot 1976]

Cry me a river. They pay a third of what I pay here in Dallas for their insurance premiums.

I have a friend who moved here from NC and he was shocked at how much we pay here.

[Finny]

Several factors contribute to the Triangle's costly commute. About 78 percent of drivers do not car pool, which adds up to more cars on the road.

The carpool lanes are what contribute to the costly commute, not lack of carpoolers.

Here in So Cal, those *^&%$#! carpool lanes slow everything down because they take up so much room. These MORONS seem to think that carpooling is a matter of choice and/or convenience. It's not. I couldn't carpool if I wanted to because the nature of my work precludes it, as is the case in MANY peoples' circumstances. We are stuck in the regular lanes, while most of the people using carpools are there because they happen to have somebody else in the car -- they're on the road en route to a social occasion with spouse or friend, shopping with friend or family member, or going somewhere with kids in the car. I remember cruising in the carpool lane with my husband down to San Diego one Friday afternoon for a weekend social event, nothing important, zipping along at 60. Meanwhile, hard-working folks with busy lives were crawling along at 15 mph in the regular lanes. It proved the total farce of carpool lanes.

On a five-lane freeway where one of the lanes is designated for carpooling, that's a 20 percent loss of freeway area. But our Big Nanny Federal Gov't' has decided that we all need to carpool, so for a state to get federal highway monies, they must include carpool lanes in their plans.

Carpool lanes are wasteful, discriminatory, and cause an increase in traffic jams (and therefore pollution).

[Alia]

NC *Ping*

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[clyde asbury]

Carpooling is extremely expensive.


In North Carolina, carpooling has been shown to primarily occur two and and three counties away from large urban counties. Promotion of carpooling within Wake and Mecklenburg counties, for example, is a waste.
Transportation Research Record 1390, pp. 50-59