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

1.86K views

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?

In: 406

72 Answers

Anonymous 0 Comments

In some places there are formal or informal systems in which drivers pick up people without cars in order to use the carpool lane and get to work faster. Generally however they just don’t succeed in taking cars off the road.

You are viewing 1 out of 72 answers, click here to view all answers.