Hybrid-access bill speeds toward OK

Hybrid-access bill speeds toward OK

Critics fear incentive could increase traffic

By Douglas Fischer, STAFF WRITER

A measure granting drivers of hybrid vehicles access to free-way carpool lanes -- even when alone -- is cruising through the Legislature, despite calls from opponents who say such drivers could gum up the lanes for those in carpools and buses.
Sponsored by Assemblywoman Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, the fast-moving bill would let up to 75,000 drivers of vehicles with gas-and-electric-powered "hybrid" engines use the lanes as an incentive to buy the new technology and improve overall air quality....

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