We have HOV lanes. Expensive HOV lanes. In California the Sepluveda Pass on the 405 will get a 1 Billion dollar upgrade to add one single carpool lane.

And yet, there is no advertisement of carpooling. Bush even made a slip of the tongue about carpooling on his 4th of July address that was re-spun by his administration later to clarify that the carpooling mentioned was only to be for the familes of soldiers in Iraq.

There is a serious leadership vacuum in this country.

It is interesting to me how quickly carpooling is dismissed as a footnote in sovling traffic congestion.

The following is a response to LAtimes.com bloggers regarding building more roads or mass transit as the only solutions for freeway congestion.

The following is a lesson in the history of Rideshare and Carpool. It is mostly a lesson in government funding of Rideshare and Carpool matching services.

The CEO of the Los Angeles MTA has stated that at 1.3 riders per car there would be no traffic congestion on our freeways.

Hello MTA, why aren't we funding that?