Pummeled by complaints from North Bay drivers, state and regional transportation officials say they will reduce the carpool lane hours on a recently overhauled stretch of Highway 101.
They have not yet decided on a new permanent schedule. Representatives of Caltrans said they are conducting a traffic analysis along the 52 miles of freeway from Windsor to the Richardson Bay Bridge. This fall, Caltrans completed a 30-year rebuild of that corridor, widening a notorious bottleneck between Petaluma and Novato, and creating a continuous carpool lane through Marin and Sonoma counties.
It got a warm reception and a well-attended ribbon-cutting, followed by weeks of tumult…