Car Pool Lane

If you live in a large city, traffic can be a problem. One of the most thoughtless things to come out of Sacramento, Cal. Trans. or wherever, was the BRILLANT idea of the carpool lane on our freeways. The carpool lane doesn't make people use it. The few who do use it do so only because it's there. Often two lanes are logged down with trucks, two other lanes are bumper to bumper with cares and the carpool lane is relatively open. In So. California very few people live in the same community that work somewhere else in the same area. The traffic could be somewhat alleviated if the carpool lane was eliminated or opened to everyone during non-rush hours and weekends. I cringe when I see millions of dollars being spent to add carpool lanes. A whole new freeway could be built in some needed location with those dollars. If a study was done to warrant the need for carpool lanes as opposed to "just adding another lane", then the qualifications of members of that committee should be studied closely.