Kids aren't carpoolers

CALIFORNIANS LOVE carpool lanes — and they're about to get a lot more. Much of the nearly $20 billion in bonds that voters approved in November to fund transportation projects will be spent to build carpool lanes on the state's freeways. On Wednesday, the California Department of Transportation released its list of recommended projects for the first $4.5-billion chunk of the Proposition 1B money, and it calls for devoting nearly all of Los Angeles County's share to carpool lanes on the 5, 10 and 405 freeways.

January 23, 2007