- May 12, 2001
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Never understood why one lane is effectively taken out of service during peak traffic times.
politics and revenue
Never understood why one lane is effectively taken out of service during peak traffic times.
If $3/month saves you 15-30 minutes/ day in commute, if would seem to be a bargain.In California this new "pilot program for hov lanes is crap. 40 dollar deposit for a transponder to be allowed to drive in carpool lane even if you have 2+ persons in your vehicle, no you don't get the money back at the end of the pilot program due to a 3 dollar monthly fee on your required account where the deposit is held. On the 10 the took away two lanes for this program, ~33% of lanes. So traffic is made artificially rose for non transponder users above what a one lane pilot program would do.
but the point was to reduce pollution, theyv'e been in effect for what, 15 years now and just simple logic as pointed out in the OP shows that they do the opposite!!! who benefits from this?
What should make most people feel better, is that there is worse gridlock in other places. Which means we have not yet discovered how bad things must get before people give up the single-occupant commute, or live closer to where they work.
As far as I can tell 'length of commute' is not in the top-10 for reasons why people select their homes and/or jobs.