Carpool Lanes Make Interchange Worse
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Re “Bill Would Aid Toll Lane Purchase,” Aug. 13:
The diagram accompanying the article provides an excellent description of this complex and costly expansion of the interchange between the San Diego and Costa Mesa freeways. The changes are needed to help reduce congestion caused by cars weaving in from carpool lanes. It should be pointed out that all this construction would not have been necessary if there were no carpool lanes.
Carpool lanes were supposed to alleviate congestion by encouraging ridesharing. The lanes instead have left us with added congestion and a $150-million bill to correct this mistake. A more effective and less costly solution would have been to just convert the carpool lanes to regular lanes.
Dave Mootchnik
Huntington Beach
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