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We all pay gas taxes. We should all be able to use the roads built with those taxes. Instead government is giving the rich a lane of their own. This means less lanes for the poor and middle class. This also creates more gridlock.
This policy makes it harder, more expensive and more polluting to go to work, play or go for a drive with the family. "No one yet knows if the traffic-easing claims are true, but the best guess of many veteran commuters is they're wrong. Anyone who's been in the traffic jams that plague much of Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sacramento region knows allowing single-occupant cars into carpool lanes won't ease the flow of ordinary lanes much, if at all. Putting more than 50,000 hybrid Toyota Priuses and Honda Civics there certainly didn't speed things up in the other lanes, but it has slowed down the previously speedy high occupancy ones."
Time to end the elitism of government. Time to return the roads to all people, not just the rich. Pass this along to your friends.
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This policy makes it harder, more expensive and more polluting to go to work, play or go for a drive with the family. "No one yet knows if the traffic-easing claims are true, but the best guess of many veteran commuters is they're wrong. Anyone who's been in the traffic jams that plague much of Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sacramento region knows allowing single-occupant cars into carpool lanes won't ease the flow of ordinary lanes much, if at all. Putting more than 50,000 hybrid Toyota Priuses and Honda Civics there certainly didn't speed things up in the other lanes, but it has slowed down the previously speedy high occupancy ones."
Time to end the elitism of government. Time to return the roads to all people, not just the rich. Pass this along to your friends.
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