Car Pool (HOV) sticker. When will they be issued again??

[interocitor]

Looks like it got sent back to the Transportation Committee. No vote on the floor yet. Probably worth a letter, email or phone call to your California (Legislature) State Senator (not Federal.)

[jaw444]

Originally Posted by interocitor

Looks like it got sent back to the Transportation Committee. No vote on the floor yet. Probably worth a letter, email or phone call to your California (Legislature) State Senator (not Federal.)

Thanks. I just looked up my senators, looks like it's Padilla. I'll write to him and call him and email him, good suggestion. Thanks for the updates and follow up.

[zuhamit]

Originally Posted by jaw444

Thanks. I just looked up my senators, looks like it's Padilla. I'll write to him and call him and email him, good suggestion. Thanks for the updates and follow up.

Hi,
I would like to write a letter to my senator too,
but I am not native of US, so I have no idea what do I need to write, e.g. do I need to ask for support or opposition for which # law/bill. Please send me the wording that you are going to submit to your senator so I could do same for mine. Thanks.

[interocitor]

Here's another update ... looks like possible extension to 2014, but NOT Prius:

"(1) A vehicle that meets California's super ultra-low emission
vehicle (SULEV) standard for exhaust emissions and the federal
inherently low-emission vehicle (ILEV) evaporative emission standard,
as defined in Part 88 (commencing with Section 88.101-94) of Title
40 of the Code of Federal Regulations."
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AB 1500 (Lieu) was amended yesterday (7/14). The amended text can be found below:

AB 1500 (Lieu) STATUS UPDATE
- 07/14/09: -Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on
APPR.
Full information: California Legislation: AB 1500 (Lieu): High-occupancy lanes: single occupancy vehicles: sunset date.

[SpaceMountain]

Never used set...make me an offer

[fuzzy1]

Originally Posted by SpaceMountain

Never used set...make me an offer

As pointed out elsewhere, transfer of these stickers to another car is not legal.

[Muhahahahaz]

Originally Posted by fuzzy1

As pointed out elsewhere, transfer of these stickers to another car is not legal.

Sure, but it's not like an officer passing by would know that you transferred the stickers...

[HayaiKuruma]

It makes no sense for the state of California to extend the life of the Prius-Civic HOV stickers or to issue additional stickers (and this is coming from a guy who's had them since 2006.) Why no extension? Because the purpose of the law was to encourage Californians to buy high-mileage, low-emission vehicles. Well, we bought 'em. If they don't extend the life of the HOV stickers, what are we going to do, junk our cars? As for issuing more stickers, California is already under orders from the feds to do something about its congested HOV lanes, especially (as other posters have noted) on some of the more gruesomely overcrowded freeways here in L.A. Those carpools lanes are built partly with federal money, and if they don't reach certain standards of travel efficiency -- poof! -- there goes the federal money. The last thing the state wants to do is add another 10,000 or 20,000 vehicles to its overcrowded HOV lanes (which are already useless on the weekends, when many more people are traveling two or more to a car) and put its federal funding highway funding at even greater risk.

[Mando]

hi folks,

new Prius owner (2005 model) here.

first and foremost, hello

second, i would like to add some comments to this thread.

given the fiscal condition of California, why would the state miss the opportunity to harness revenue from such a potential source? I would be willing to "extend" my carpool sticker for a $100 a year...something of a toll road scenario i know, but a source of funding, albeit diminishing (as older hybrids go out to pasture )

thoughts?

fyi - i bought a red 05 pkg 6 - with hov stickers - still past weekend. got a great deal on it and i'm loving it. i'm usually a honda guy, but toyota did an awesome job on the prius

[jaw444]

Originally Posted by Mando

hi folks,

new Prius owner (2005 model) here.

first and foremost, hello

second, i would like to add some comments to this thread.

given the fiscal condition of California, why would the state miss the opportunity to harness revenue from such a potential source? I would be willing to "extend" my carpool sticker for a $100 a year...something of a toll road scenario i know, but a source of funding, albeit diminishing (as older hybrids go out to pasture )

thoughts?

fyi - i bought a red 05 pkg 6 - with hov stickers - still past weekend. got a great deal on it and i'm loving it. i'm usually a honda guy, but toyota did an awesome job on the prius

Hello, welcome. congratulations on coming over--i'm a Honda person too, still love 'em, but the Prius is almost like a different species of machine. On january 2 of this year i got a used 2007 Prius with carpool stickers. The stickers was one of the main two or three reasons i got the Prius.

about renewing or continuing carpool lane access for Prius hybrids--

i see youre from Pasadena. By coincidence, i was in Pasadena yesterday, and then out to San Dimas, back on the 210/134 to Van Nuys, and then the 405 to Santa Monica. By the time i got to the 405, it was rush hour, about 5pm. It was eerie how empty the carpool lane was. I was flying. The cars in all the other lanes were stopped, there had been an accident earlier and traffic was bad. In the carpool lane, not only was it not overly impacted and congested as opponents to continuing the access for hybrids say. Nobody was in the lane, i wasn't behind anyone and i was going fast, i kept waiting to see cars stopped in my lane ahead after every bend in the road but it didn't happen til the carpool lane ended just before the 10. Usually it's not quite this good, but i am just not seeing the congestion in the carpool lane that is cited as the reason not to extend and continue access for hybrids. The carpool lanes do get stopped up sometimes during rush hour but they are way better than the other lanes and still a great incentive to carpool

I like your idea of a fee to continue driving in the lanes. I've been hoping for something like that. I have long been disgruntled because i'm required by the state of California to drive alone in my car, for my job, it's a state mandate the i visit each client once a month, i'm a county social worker, there's no way to do that in a carpool, we are required to have our own car in order to qualify for the job. So the same State that requires me to be alone in my car on the freeways then punishes me for doing what it has mandated me to do by making it more difficult to do the job it has required me to do--in other words, i think under those circumstances they should provide some kind of waiver stickers. but that's just my private fantasy while grumbling in traffic sometimes.

Anyway, so it will be painful to lose that access and i'm hoping there will be some solution, maybe what you suggest.

What do you think of toll lanes for the State to get more revenue? I think it's unfair because some people can afford them better than others. But if it were an option, i'd take it. Maybe my job would reimburse me, as long as it was driving on the job.