Well, they haven't so far....but a nice rhetorical question.
Now, why did this pass again?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698464/posts
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Among the key findings in the AP’s review of the bond:
• At least $8.7 billion - about 43 percent - will not go directly for road work. Instead, the money will pay for bus, rail, freight, air quality and security projects.
• Of the $11.3 billion that could go for roads, less than half is dedicated to reducing congestion on what the state considers to be “high-priority corridors” on highways and other major routes.
• The only road project guaranteed funding is Highway 99 through the Central Valley. It will get $1 billion, although experts say it will take six times that amount to bring it up to interstate highway standards.
• Despite the reference to highway safety in the bond’s title, less than 4 percent of the money would go to the state’s main fund for highway safety projects. Supporters say additional lanes and other such projects also would improve safety.
• The bond also invests $1 billion for transit security. But some experts question whether that’s an appropriate use of borrowed bond money because the state is supposed to be receiving federal homeland security funds for such improvements.
Good, Car pool lanes are one of the biggest waste of _everybody’s_ time that has ever been perpetrated upon the public.