Diamond Lanes

Your editorial “Diamond Lanes Are Back” (April 9) claims that these lanes are working. I like them because normally my wife is with me and I can use them. When they are not available, I just sit in traffic and blame the horse.

It is evident that most cars have no passengers. Most cars, and the freeways, are being used to transport one individual. Clearly the need is for a transportation system that moves an individual who is normally alone. A car pool just complicates the trip.

Invariably while we sit in traffic, a motorcycle rider comes along and wends his way through the cars, demonstrating that our existing transportation system is using the wrong vehicle. If everyone used a motorcycle we would have no problems.

The cars we drive came from the horseless carriage. The size of the horseless carriage and our cars was dictated by the dimensions of the horse. Without the horse we might not be using motorcycles but certainly a “monomobile” designed for our existing transportation system, to take one individual, would be much smaller than our modern cars. I blame the horse because had it never existed, I would be moving along in my “monomobile” instead of sitting here in my horseless carriage.

EDWARD C. PERRY II

Palm Springs