Oregon

[Ghryphen]

Originally posted by XMEN Ashaman DTM
Think of moving 2 million people in a couple of hours, and they all have to have their own cars and drive to the opposite end of the Sound.

Yeah, a drive to the office takes 20 minutes on the weekend, it takes a little over an hour during the week

It is the carpool lane that actually causes some of the traffic problems. The freeway will be fine until an on-ramp comes, or another highway merges in, then the dozen carpoolers make a mad dash across 5 lanes of traffic to get in the carpool lane as soon as they can, haulting the rest of the freeway. As soon as you get past the on-ramp, everything speeds back up......until you hit the next off-ramp where now all the carpoolers stay in the in the lane as long as they can and then shoot back across 5 lanes of traffic so they can get off the freeway, resulting in haulted traffic once again.

It would be interesting to see how the freeway would do with all lanes open to everyone, of course...when I do carpool I want it open to carpoolers only They are talking about opening the carpool lane after hours and on weekends, I dont know what good that does, the rest of the freeway is fine then.

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