John Bowlin drove on the C470 in Greenwood Village, Colorado, driving his wife to a Cranberries tribute concert for her 40th birthday last May. He paid the $2.40 to enter the express lane after getting onto the freeway, and he crossed over the two white lines to enter it.
A few months later, he received a $75 ticket from the Colorado Transportation Investment Office (CITO) for how he entered the express lane.
“I got in the mail something called a Notice of Civil Penalty, and it said that I had committed a safety violation by weaving in and out of the toll lane on C470,” he told 9News …