If you drive a hybrid with a state-issued yellow sticker in the car-pool lanes starting Friday, you better have at least one passenger with you. The six-year perk that allowed 85,000 hybrid drivers to drive solo in car-pool lanes ends after Thursday evening's commute. The Legislature in 2004 created the [...]
Fewer drivers were ticketed last year for speeding on local highways than the year before, but there was a dramatic increase in those cited for texting while driving and for violating car-pool lane hours, according to Sonoma County traffic court records. For speeding, 5,975 drivers were ticketed last year on [...]
If you drive by yourself in car-pool lanes in your hybrid car during commute hours, enjoy it while you can. The DMV is mailing out 85,000 letters to hybrid car owners who have yellow stickers on their cars allowing them to use car-pool lanes, warning them that that privilege ends [...]
If you're driving along Highway 101 in the far left lane and you're doing the speed limit of 65 mph, are you legally required to move over for drivers who want to go even faster? No, says CHP Officer Jon Sloat. "You may annoy some people but it's not illegal," [...]
As Highway 101 is being widened in Sonoma County to add a car-pool lane during commute hours, the number of commuters car pooling has dropped, according to Census Bureau data. The bureau's American Community Survey of 2006-2008 found 26,176 workers car pooled, down from 28,283 in the 2000 Census. The [...]
How many people are driving illegally in the car pool lanes on Highway 101? Way too many. In 2009, the CHP gave out 1,667 tickets to suspected car-pool violators, up from 2008's count of 1,458. And that's just the ones who got caught. And it was before the [...]
Thinking about trying to trick the CHP the next time you get stopped? Well, here's some examples where it didn't work. Last Sunday, the CHP stopped a VW Jetta after seeing the driver make an unsafe U-turn on Stony Point Road near Todd Road. But as the officer walked up [...]
It's official: The $120 million project to widen Highway 101 from Santa Rosa to Windsor is complete. Well, sort of. More than 50 local, county, state, federal and construction officials gathered Tuesday morning for the project's official ribbon cutting ceremony, held at the Standard Structures plant in Windsor, [...]