Despite the sound bite that “New strategies may be necessary to manage congestion,” traffic meters and carpool lanes aren’t new ideas. They’re just new to the San Joaquin Valley. Freeways without meters in Los Angeles are the exception, not the rule, because, when used in the right situations, they work. (Although they don’t perform miracles.)

On-ramp meters might be all we’ve got

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“The major problem is that during certain times of the day, traffic typically breaks down on those highways. This means that you either get the stop-and-go traffic that we all know or you slow down a lot to almost cycling speed.”

Going with the flow