Damien Newton of Street Heat LA says carpool lanes don’t work, even though people think they encourage eco-friendly behaviors. In this third post of a guest series (here are the first and the second) on Emerald City, Damien crunches some numbers to show why toll lanes might work better than carpool lanes:

The percentage of people who commute via car pooling in Los Angeles County has remained static. According to the U.S. Census, in 2002 12.8% of commuters in LA County commuted by car, but by 2006 that figure fell to 12%…. In short, despite their popularity, HOV lanes aren’t causing single passenger commuters to switch to a carpool.

Read the entire post here.

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