If you drive you must have noticed the “Multiple Occupants Only” lanes that are set up on some of the busier streets around you city. These lanes are a great idea to keep traffic flowing and a small thank you to those drivers that are trying to be a little ”green” by car-pooling.
I drive one such road every day and, as I drive alone, I do my good citizen bit by not using that particular lane. However, not a day goes by when I don’t see another driver blow by me all alone in their car. Now I don’t begrudge the guy using that lane, if he wants to run the risk of a ticket in the chance of saving a bit of time on his journey that’s fine by me. The problem comes when right behind this lone driver there comes a patrol car carrying one or two of our city’s finest, completely ignoring the fact that the car in front and probably the one behind, are breaking a traffic law. You have to wonder if in fact the multiple lane thing is just a suggestion rather than a law. Or is it that if you weigh as much as two people you can use it at will. Or maybe if at some point in time you have had, or intend to have, more than one person in your car you exempt.
It seems to me that this regulation is only needs to obeyed on the odd occasion that the local law enforcement can be bothered to actually enforce it.
but then……
what the hell do I know.
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