New Highway 101 lane called a "disaster" because of extended HOV hours

[hunter]

1. I lost any tolerance I had for commuting more than thirty years ago.

Miles and miles of stop-and-go freeway traffic would leave me frazzled when I finally arrived at work.

I could get to work just as fast on my bicycle, using surface streets and a few shortcuts that were not open to automobile traffic, but only at the risk of being killed or maimed by drivers oblivious to bicycles.

The best solution to this kind of traffic would be to tear down the freeways and rebuild our cities, turning them into attractive, affordable places where car ownership is unnecessary.