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Carpool Passes Go Fast

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by jkash, Aug 4, 2006.

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    Carpool Passes Go Fast
    The state has so far received 74,108 applications for an allotment of 75,000 decals permitting hybrid owners to drive solo in HOV lanes.

    A day after he signed the papers on his new metallic-blue Honda Civic hybrid, Steve Giang was rushing Thursday to file a different kind of paperwork.

    Like many hybrid owners, Giang was seeking special decals from the state allowing him to take advantage of a top perk of owning the fuel-efficient car: the right to drive solo in freeway carpool lanes.

    Only a year after the program was introduced, state officials are perhaps weeks away from capping the number of special permits for hybrid cars to drive in the state's high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

    Officials set a maximum of 75,000 permits. And as of Thursday, they had received 74,108 applications and issued 62,355 permits.

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    #1 jkash, Aug 4, 2006
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