I was driving 45 minutes to get to a funeral today, on an unfamiliar freeway, and I kept seeing all these single drivers going in the carpool lane.
I hmmph'd at the first one, scoffed at the second, and by the time the fourth car driven by a single person went by, I started craning my head looking for the inevitable cop. No one came.
The single-driver cars kept driving by.
Then I started to think it must be me - did the diamonds painted on the line mean it was no longer carpool? What did these other drivers know that I didn't?
And then I realized. Duh. It's only in SoCal that carpool lanes are for two or more drivers all the time. I was driving at 10:30 in the morning, past rush hour and therefore past required carpool times. And... yep, there was the sign on the side of the road that said that.
I laughed at myself and moved to the left lane. :)
It makes so much more sense to open those lanes up during non rush hour times! I wish they did that here. Now it's not even enough to have two or more people in the car. On some freeways you have to have purchased a transponder to use the diamond lane. No transponder, you PAY to use that lane no matter how many people in your car. It's pretty crummy. oh well.
ReplyDeleteoy! yuck.
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