Ive seen the effect of carpool lanes over in San Jose.

An elite few get the benefit of something that everyone was forced to pay for.

When I see 4 lanes of highway 85 crawling at rush hour and the diamond lane mostly empty, I see an additional 25% of highway capacity being denied to the thousands who need it then and there.

How ironic is it to build extra capacity, then take it away from 99% of the people who could benefit from it?

Carpool lanes are fine on paper, but in reality they have only increased congestion which lowers efficiency and wastes more gas creating more pollution.

Those stupid diamonds should have been painted over 15 years ago, but everyone around here is so in love with the religion of conservation that they either refuse to even consider that carpool lanes are a failure for *the democractic tax-paying majority*, or they see it but refuse to openly admit that they favor increased traffic as a way to punish people for the sin of driving a car, because then the public wouldn't be so tolerant of environmentalists.