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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Nothing too dramatic, but once on Miami I ducked into a funnel to evade a lookout. About half way through, I notice an enforcer entering the tunnel from then side I’m headed for. I figured a random enforcer is easier to deal with than a lookout, so I keep heading that way. You guessed it: another lookout. Needless to say everything went to unrecoverable shit.

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