People live where they want to. The commutes might be much, much shorter if the government dictated where people lived. Darwin is at work, though.

I don't care about the HOV lanes. Eliminating them may alleviate the pressure for the single passenger vehicle for a while. May evern speed up the societal processes necessary to solve the problem.

The choices people have made lead to pressure on the highway system. All I'm suggesting is that -

Road building will not keep up with the population growth, therefore the situation will get worse, and

People may start to choose differently when the old ways are too hard to maintain. Sort of a form of evolution.

In this view it's not the politicians who are at fault. It's the free choices of people. AND, as those choices made sense once, the same choices may not make as much sense as conditions change.

Another example is insulation in housing. Wasn't done well as long as energy was cheap. People chose to change how they built their houses as it became to expensive to not insulate.

Arf