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I hadn't really thought about it before but it strikes me as kind of odd that a taxi/limo/uber with one passenger would be allowed to use the car pool lane... g

• eridius 12y ago
  I think the reason is that the incentive of the carpool lane is to get fewer cars off the road, not to literally reward the act of carrying more than one person in a vehicle. To that end, taxis can use carpool because someone using a taxi is someone not driving a personal vehicle (and parking it at their destination, and driving back home later). If taxis are good enough, people won't buy cars, and fewer owned cars generally means fewer cars on the road.
• baddox 12y ago
  Is "transit lane" the same thing as a carpool lane?
  • mikeryan 12y ago
    No, in SF and other urban areas transit lanes are exclusively for taxis and buses.
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• ChuckMcM 12y ago
  Why is that odd? The "goal" was to incentivize multiple people per car. Not unlike say, babysitters transporting their charges from school to daycare. Some places put the limit at '3' to avoid just those situations (but it also freezes out couples going on a date) and at least one jurisdiction was quoted as allowing only vehicles at their 'full passenger capacity' what ever that is (which seems a bit extreme to me)