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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 [b]I bet there are parents putting their kids in downtown daycares to take advantage of HOV rules -[/b] if so I do think that undermines the purpose of the lanes and is a legal form of cheating.[/quote]

There are absolutely are. Just like there are people who slug to take advantage of HOV rules or who drive electric cars or who carpool with their neighbors. Lots of people do things to legally take advantage of benefits offered to them.

And once again, if that reduces the time the parent is on the road by 15-30 minutes it is actually a net good.

If you are the PP going on about how everyone can choose a daycare. There are a lot of options but they are hard to get into. If you only get into two and one is next to your house and has 3 safety violations and one is close to the city and has a much better reputation you think the parent should put their child in the close bad one just to stay off the road? Or should we help parents make good chocies for their children without adding a population of people to the rush hour for two hours a pop?[/quote]

No it really isn't a net good to society and is only a good to the parent - the point is to move people through a corridor more efficiently who need to get through the corridor.  People going to work in cars with multiple people we want to move through the corridor as efficiently as possible to reward them for being more efficient.  We don't want to give scarce space in the HOV lanes to people whose kids are electively enrolled in downtown daycare.  We don't want to give the space to people who could travel at another time of day - we want incentives to reward the people who most need to be on the road at a particular time who are making smart choices.  I fail to see why parents who elect to enroll their kids in school far from home should benefit from this system.[/quote]

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