Posted on 12/15/2014 10:49:26 AM PST by EveningStar
... Carpool lanes are so clogged in California, the state could lose federal funding and approval for projects if it doesn’t fix the problem.
Under federal law, carpool lane drivers in California must be able to go an average of 45 miles per hour or faster during peak hours. Additionally, over a six-month period, traffic has to go that fast 90 percent of the time. Caltrans explains that means the lane’s average speed can drop below 45 no more than two days a month ...
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I like my jam density to be low enough so that it spreads on the bread evenly with one knife swoop.
Then the new series of ‘buy into the carpool lane’ programs started - hey, slap a natural gas sticker on your car and fill out a form with a picture of the sticker, and you too could buy your way into the lane. Once again, the travel time became 45 minutes.
We use the carpool lane. It saves LOTS of time for us. What amazes me is how many cars have just one person in them. Why don’t THEY carpool?
Problem in Southern California are those people driving in the HOV lane that have no business there.
Vehicles with one occupant with no HOV Sticker.
And there are tons of them.
I don’t see the problem - California’s a liberal state, all they have to do is apply a liberal solution: redefine the mile or redefine the hour.
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As dumb as those lines in banks or at the local Fry’s Electronics that have you snake around instead of lining up like at a supermarket.
Car pools lanes in the Sepulvada pass on the 405 freeway are stupid (mountain on either side). You need every lane to accommodate the traffic instead of creating a bottleneck.
It simply is not practical for most people. People live far from their jobs, work different hours, and have different places they want and or need to go on their way to and from work.
Plus, back when I was employed my job took me all over southern California. Just me and my worn out cars (one after another). And my situation, although not typical, was also not unique.
My wife and I work together and we don’t car pool.
We used to but it was just too much trouble when one of us had to come in early or leave late. If one of us got sick the other lost an hour taking them home and then coming back. If one of us wanted to do some errands after work and the other just wanted to go home it left one or the other unhappy.
The lost and wasted time just wasn’t worth it.
I wouldn’t consider car pooling with someone else unless the drive was a hundred miles each way.
Yep, who knew taking 25% of the lanes away would make the other lanes just sit there? One lane gets a little better mileage and three lanes get none at all.
Air quality management and politicians, two of the most brain dead examples of the sub-human species.
There was only one reason for a HOV lane.... To keep the bus on schedule. Later some found a way to charge for it.
It is mathematically proven that car pool lanes slow down overall flow. But it allows the bus to keep a schedule. We could talk math here, but most aren’t taught that in the US of A.
Do they have car pool lanes on the Autobahn or the Autostrata. No way. Or in Japan. Oh they teach math there.
An hour in the morning and an hour and a half on way home (because I like to take the scenic route).
No HOV lanes for me.
Still the all time pun master
I enjoy it too. I have a 45 minute commute where I listen to music or talk radio. By the time I get to work I’ve finished my coffee and am ready for action!
If it comes down to a tug-of-war between the feds and the Jerry Brownian Calif***ians for who keeps the loot from federal gas taxes, I'm all in favor of it staying in corrupt Washington, D.C. rather than be squandered by CALTRANS.
Not that DOT would make better use of the funds than CALTRANS, because I'm sure they would not. They would undoubtedly be sent to other states to be wasted on bike paths or light rail construction which ultimately will become a money pit for those state and local governments to fill at the cost of foregoing worthwhile highway projects.
However, there is a positive side to Washington not funding Calif***ia's ever-expanding carpool network. As one of the largest recipients of federal transportation dollars, having their portion of the pot cut off for a minor infraction of the rules written into federal law to satisfy mostly anti-highway enviros and anti-growth Malthusians would sound the alarm that federal money is not free: accept it at your own risk.
The sooner large states such as Calif***ia get shorted by the feds and consequently have to go their own way toward funding local road projects the sooner we can bid adieu to the federal fuel tax. With the Interstate Highway System having been finished for twenty-five years, isn't it about time?
You realize you just outed yourself as a Southern Californian...
I did. I forget that there is more California north of San Clemente...
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