Eli5 How are carpool lanes supposed to help traffic? It seems like having another lane open to everyone would make things better?

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I live in Los Angeles, and we have some of the worst traffic in the country. I’ve seen that one reason for carpool lanes is to help traffic congestion, but I don’t understand since it seems traffic could be a lot better if we could all use every lane.

Why do we still use carpool lanes? Wouldn’t it drastically help our traffic to open all lanes?

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> It seems like having another lane open to everyone would make things better?

oh my sweet summer child.

also no they are trying to band aid the horrible traffic by getting several people into one vehicle. someone should really work on that! like the vehicle could have a designated driver, it would be big so many people fit and it would stop at alot of places so alot of different people could carpool together. Man i wish we had something like that :/

maybe it could even be on some kind of “rail” and it could have its completley own lane so it didnt even have to sit in traffic! man i wish we had something like that

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