Minnesota's Anti-carpool Lane Experiment

"It sounds easy enough: Open the carpool-bus lanes to general traffic, and see what happens... Congress would have to exempt I-35W from federal funding rules before a test on that freeway could even be considered, Steger said. Those rules don't apply to I-394, but he said a test there will be considered only after a review of facts and figures that show it would be in the public interest." Critics of the carpool-bus lanes feel that the lanes are not paying off and are underused.