For those unfamiliar with L.A.'s back-asswards freeway system, for some dumb reason that makes no sense, the carpool lanes here are divided from the next lanes over by double yellow lines, intermittently interrupted by broken white lines. Worse yet, the double yellow lines frequently remain unbroken through one, two, even three exits, which means you actually have to know in advance where the broken white lines are located on each freeway to be sure you can make your exit.
L.A. takes a lot of well-deserved grief for its lack of public transportation (which is getting better, by the way), but this kind of 'policy' doesn't even make sense to the Hummer-driving gasaholics clogging the 405 northbound and southbound every minute of every day.
Happily, Councilmember Janice Hahn is calling b*llsh*t on hostage-taking, carbon-emitting carpool lanes:
"I know for a fact that up in Northern California, car pool lanes don't have the double-double, triple-triple, yellow-yellow, white lines," she exclaimed in a confused manner. "In fact, they treat them as just a lane that you can get in and out of. I think that is one of the number one reasons they [car pool lanes in Los Angeles] are not effective right now--is the exit and entrances to these car pool lanes."
Orange County is getting rid of them -- is L.A. really going to place itself farther back on the learning curve than the place that made these women celebrities?