[Cymbaline]

Carpooling won't do much to reduce U.S. highway congestion in urban areas

Absolutely true. I lived both in L.A. and the SF Bay Area, and the diamond lanes were a joke. The main lines of the freeway are at a complete standstill, and the diamond lane has like 5 people in it, all going 90mph. They do NOTHING for traffic conjestion. Their only purpose is to give liberals a way to directly punish you for not being politically correct.

[weegee]

Absolutely true. I lived both in L.A. and the SF Bay Area, and the diamond lanes were a joke. The main lines of the freeway are at a complete standstill, and the diamond lane has like 5 people in it, all going 90mph. They do NOTHING for traffic conjestion. Their only purpose is to give liberals a way to directly punish you for not being politically correct.

But they can fine you for violating that lane. And on some highways, it is an EPA mandated thing so you get hit with some pretty high fines.

Another wonderful revenue stream.

More money is made by ticketing those who illegally park at parking meters than on the change that is pumped into the meters.

[Married with Children]

I know of what you speak..couldn't believe no one was in the diamond lane. I got in and out of it a few times but am not from around there and was not sure how heavily that was inforced.

[muawiyah]

I've driven extensively in Southern California and found the expresslane system (where it exists) to be simply marvelous.

I never failed to have the requisite mob of people in my vehicle (2).

Although there's space between the cars using the expresslanes, they move more cars per lane per hour than the regular lanes do, particularly when they are at a complete standstill for hours on end.

CA should quickly expand the expresslanes to at least 2 full lanes in each direction to bring more speed and efficiency to commuter traffic.