Social Mis-Engineering

Good job, Register Editorial writers on finally re-stating your position against car pool lanes this morning in Hybrids in the HOV Lane.  All the right sources and data are referenced in this piece, especially the New Jersey situation of seven years ago where underutilized HOV lanes were changed for ordinary use by the folks who paid for them in the first place.

This silliness, however, re. allowing 45mpg+ hybrids into the lanes is just that and the Register weakens its position by acceding compromise on this point.  Once again, the government, apparently pressured by the do-gooder liberal tree huggers, is pushing a socially engineered agenda, compromising to the benefit of a minority, and ignoring the grander overall need -- we're choked with traffic and expensive resources are going underutilized.  And for just another poke in the eye (which we've discussed here before), HOV lanes spawn expensive (and unworkable in this example) situations like the need to build HOV-specific crossovers like the mess at the 405 & 55 that the OCTA's contracted engineers manage to screw up.

Come on Register, don't just make a point, MAKE THE POINT.  Let's rid ourselves of these things and give the pavement back to everyone who paid for it.

Postscript:  I haven't exhaustively researched this, but I did find the following on MixedPower.com:

Consumer Reports magazine, which calculates its own fuel economy stats, noted that its Toyota Prius hybrid test car got 44 miles a gallon in real world driving, not the city/highway rating of 55 mpg that the government reports.

Sorry, Prius owners.  Otoh, you can always appeal to the State agency that will undoubtedly be set up for part-time, well-pensioned and perked bureaucrats to adjudicate mileage claims, get lobbied by the manufacturers and, for a fee of course, issue stickers to all the hybrid owners so they won't be ticketed when the above comes to pass.  But take heart, once that Agency's established, it'll be your target for a class action suit.  And God help us all if it turns out to be the DMV.

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