I mailed my check on Sept 19, received the HOV stickers today. Yup...they sure are fugly, but I guess it will be worth it.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(derk @ Oct 22 2006, 06:41 PM) [snapback]336583[/snapback]</div> For a long time I debated whether it would be worth putting them on my Civic Hybrid (my other car) because, as you say, they sure are fugly. If I lived in the bay, that might be one thing, but I've only got about 3 miles of diamond lane on my daily commute. I finally decided to play stupid and put them in the corners of my windows. I know full well that's not where they go, but I find them less offensive there, and I can remove them much easier should I decide to. I figure that as long as a cop can see the stickers, they probably won't care if they're in the right place or not. If they DO care, they're just being anal! Since, when I got mine, the instructions were printed on the face of a return envelope and weren't real clear, I figured I could play dumb should I get pulled over. Worse case scenario, I figure, I'll get a fix-it ticket and then I put them in the right place... No guarantees though.
Why couldn't they at least be like the silver ones that the CNG cars get to display? Silver is so much more of an agreeable color than yellow. therwise I have no problem with something that cost a measly $8 and will get me into the carpool lane whenever I wish to use it.
I like the yellow ones more than the silver stickers. Silver stickers on a silver car don't look great.
Why is the sticket number in the 79,000 range? I thought that the limit would be 75,000 until AB 2600 goes into effect on Jan 1, 2007?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 11:57 AM Subject: Assemblymember Fran Pavley's HOV update Dear Friends: This is to update you on the status of the stickers that will allow qualifying hybrid vehicles to use California's HOV (carpool) lanes. The DMV expects to have issued all 75,000 stickers authorized by my bill, AB 2628, very shortly. However, new legislation passed this year authorized issuance of another 10,000 stickers. The roughly 2,000 applications currently pending will continue to be processed, along with new applications. Stickers beyond the 75,000 initially authorized cannot be sent until the new legislation becomes effective, which is January 1, 2007. The new legislation also extends this program through the year 2011. Sincerely, Fran Pavley Assemblymember, 41st District
You can't assume anything by the current number. It's entirely possible that 1) they didn't start at 00001, 2) there's a big chunk of the numeric range that "dropped out" due to printing problems; 3) they tried some geographical coding with the number, assigning large ranges to certain areas.
