The Region - News from Jan. 26, 1987

The Automobile Club of Southern California has withdrawn its support for making permanent the experimental car-pool lanes on the Costa Mesa Freeway, according to a letter from the club’s transportation manager. Although a spokesman for opponents of the car-pool lanes contended that this reversal could affect the future of the controversial experiment along the freeway, others said the club’s change of heart was insignificant. In a letter to the chairman-elect of the Orange County Transportation Commission’s Route 55 Advisory Committee, Auto Club transportation engineer Manual Puentes called for further studies because of unanswered questions.