Aug. 12, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: Carpool lanes had been created a number of a long time in the past within the curiosity of accelerating ride-sharing to scale back congestion. Electrical automobiles had been invented, partially, to scale back air air pollution (or not less than shift the air pollution to nominally environment friendly producing crops).
About 20 years in the past, authorities determined to advertise EV use by giving them free rein in high-occupancy car, or HOV, lanes, even with out passengers (“California EV drivers could lose their carpool lane privileges in September,” Aug. 8). This has stuffed carpool lanes with vehicles with solo drivers. These people haven’t any incentive to share their vehicles with different riders; that’s, carpooling is once more ignored.
I agree with the Coalition for Clear Air’s Invoice Magavern: It’s time to once more make room for carpools and scale back the whole variety of vehicles on our freeways. Let the EV particular curiosity permits expire.
Greg Golden, Van Nuys
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To the editor: I’ve carpooled from Lengthy Seashore to Irvine for many of 20 years, both in a multiperson carpool or a hybrid/EV. It’s irritating and unhappy to say that because of scarce enforcement by the California Freeway Patrol, about half of the automobiles I see in Southern California HOV lanes are cheaters. A camera-based system of enforcement must be in place, in addition to a change of the principles to require {that a} second passenger (one who’s of driving age) be within the entrance seat in order that the cameras can carry out their operate.
Joseph DeMello, Lengthy Seashore
