I've hesitated but just can't resist giving my .02 here. I've been hearing all week if not longer on national news about carpool lanes and pregnant women. First let me say I'm a huge carpool lane user. If it's available I'm on it! NO being pregnant does not give you carpool lane access. I didn't use it when I was pregnant and man would I have loved to! With my first pregnancy I was commuting from Irvine (Orange County) to Long Beach/L.A. area. If you look at the main purpose for the carpool lane, which btw is to encourage people to carpool which means fewer cars on the freeway and mostly conserve resources b/c fewer cars are being driven. Now...how is this purpose being served with being pregnant. One could argue that access to the carpool lane when you have children in the car and only one adult is the same thing and yes I would totally agree. How does driving my 9 or 7 year old around conserve resources...it doesn't. If the rules changed to exclude access unless more than one adult is in the vehicle then so be it. Granted I wouldn't like it but it would make sense. Not sure why this is bugging me so!
January 12, 2006
jillconyers
Sharing my passion for running, clean eating and overall health and fitness.
I saw that on the news too!-I take the same stand on the issue..the carpool lane is for CARPOOLING not just intended for use when you have more then one person in the car. I think here in AZ the law for the carpool lane is you have to have 2 or more licensed drivers in the car to be in that lane?-not sure though
Posted by: melissa | January 12, 2006 at 10:45 PM
It's bugging me because it's people using pregnancy as an excuse. We've gotten so far away from pregnancy being a positive thing but a part of a natural, normal life and made it into so many things I disagree with including excuses for everything under the sun. /soapbox
Posted by: robinweiss | January 13, 2006 at 07:53 PM