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> Last week, only people in carpools with two people or more, drivers with an exempt hybrid vehicle, [...] during peak times. > This week, [...]. Hybrid folks
by philsnow 9y ago
> Last week, only people in carpools with two people or more, drivers with an exempt hybrid vehicle, [...] during peak times.
> This week, [...]. Hybrid folks and Dulles users also lost their privileges, [...]
If I bought a home on the far end of this road thinking I could buy a hybrid or electric car and use it on the toll road, and then suddenly they take that away and start charging $30 each way, I'd be really upset.
Whether the expectation that this road would remain open to hybrid cars is a _reasonable_ one is an interesting question. I'm not aware of similar changes (hybrids losing their exemption) in other road systems, but I don't exactly read transit-hawk blogs.
- GVIrish 9y agoThe hybrid car exemption for HOV was supposed to be temporary but it kept getting extended for years. New hybrids couldn't get the special license plates but if you got in before the cutoff you could keep the license plate and keep transferring to whatever new hybrid or electric car you bought. I can imagine a lot of the people with the alt fuels tags are angry, but at the same time their exemption was never supposed to last this long.
- sliverstorm 9y agoCalifornia was the same way, hybrids were only supposed to get HOV access for a little while. It was written into the original law. (Don't know if that ever changed)
- ddinh 9y agoIt's supposed to expire at the end of 2018: https://arb.ca.gov/msprog/carpool/carpool.htm https://arb.ca.gov/msprog/carpool/carpool.htm Whether or not it will be extended again is an open question.