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Originally Posted by BeyGon
The regular working stiff that gets caught in the car pool lane pays what at first he thinks is a 271 dollar ticket but I think the surcharge almost doubles it, not that I care what people cheating in the car pool lanes have to pay.
In California and probably most states it isn't about safety, it's about revenue.
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OK, that's one thing I don't understand. If we have such a revenue problem in this state, and the CHP has resolved itself to be a tax collector/revenue generator, why don't they go after carpool violations more? Just sitting at the onramp meter in the morning, I see there are easily 2 or 3 cars that zip by with only one apparent human inside. Unless there are really short passengers or a miniscule child car seat. Non-crew cab pickup trucks are the easiest violators to spot. And when I'm stuck in rush hour traffic in the #1 lane, probably every 4th car that passes by in the diamond lane is traveling solo (not including the hybrids with HOV stickers). Seems like it would be easy pickins for making tens of thousands of dollars per day. And it's traffic enforcement that I can't see the public opposing.