Since we're talking reports, here's one about hybrid cars in carpool lanes.
Remember the state law allowing 45-mile-per-gallon hybrids with just one occupant to use the carpool lane? It's an incentive for people to buy environmentally friendly cars.
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A state report tells us there are 3,000 hybrid owners zipping around Sacramento with the yellow decals.
That is, minus one guy we know, Pete. Pete got a decal, but he won't use it. He just wanted to take one decal out of circulation, on principle.
He's a planner. Carpool lanes are for carpools, he says.
It's good to know that at least one policymaker sees the disconnect between current HOV lane policy and the objective of increasing the number of carpools. (We can only wonder whether "Pete" is SACOG's Pete!)
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