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How about non HOV world parent makes choice to have kids in neighborhood schools that don't involve them spending hours in the car every day?  That would be good for kids and good congestion.

Seriously why do kids need to be commuting on 270?

The point of HOV should be to get more throughput of people who need to get through a congested corridor.  It is hard for me to rationalize why kids need to get through that congested corridor but I live in DC purposefully so my kids are within walking distance of our home.  But in fact it is bad policy to encourage parents to make different choices so I'm really not sure it is in the "spirit" of the law to have parents zipping around in HOV lanes with kids who really don't need to be going to school downtown - most jobs are downtown and most daycares and schools are not.[/quote]

How about we let parents decide which works better for them, when the choices are (a) a daycare close to home but far from the job (b) a daycare far from home but close to the job? In the ideal world, everybody would also have a choice (c) home, daycare, and job all close together. But we are not in the ideal world, yet.[/quote]

Fair enough but part of that shouldn't be rewarding their choice with a faster commute on lanes that would be better used by people who have to commute through a corridor.  Jobs are concentrated in dense areas - schools tend to be concentrated in neighborhoods.  I hadn't thought of this before but I bet there are parents putting their kids in downtown daycares to take advantage of HOV rules - if so I do think that undermines the purpose of the lanes and is a legal form of cheating.[/quote]

No, dummy.  You put your kids in a downtown daycare to shorten the commute you have to work from when you drop them off and need to pick them up.
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