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

Question

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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Answer 1

the more lanes you add the more traffic you are going to bring to the road, which in turn just makes congestion that much worse. there is many videos on YouTube that explain this.

what would absolutly help is to bring public transit back into wide spread use