Those commies should ease congestion by doing away with the carpool lane and letting everyone use it.
There is an HOV lane on I-5 between downtown Portland, OR, and just short of the Interstate Bridge across the Columbia River, a distance of about 5 miles. It is CONSTANTLY at a crawl, bumper to bumper, morning and evening, starting when the HOV lane timing kicks in, and continuing until the jam ends where the HOV lane stops. It's been going on for years. It will continue to be jammed until the Sun burns out, since there is no leftist bureaucracy that will ever admit to perhaps having a poor idea that experience has proved to be wrong.
It's like sitting in traffic in Portlandia, at 5:00, with one third of the traffic lane out of bounds because of those F#CKING bike lanes, and out of boredom, counting the number of bicycles you see. Sometimes, in 30 minutes, you can get all the way to 10 by actual count. At least one is some anorexic fairy in orange spandex, on $10,000 of carbon fiber and a rear view mirror on his glasses...
(I've dreamed of popping my door open and sending him to his Atheistic Reward...)
But then they couldn’t charge you to use the once-free lane that you once used for free.