SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — California’s decades-old perk, which allows solo drivers of electric vehicles to use carpool lanes, expired on Monday.
While the program officially ended in October, the California Highway Patrol implemented a 60-day grace period before enforcement began, and before officers started issuing tickets.
The Clean Air Vehicle (CAV) decal program ended due to Congress’s failure to extend the HOV Lane Exemption Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4948), which would have allowed states to allow single-occupancy carpool lane access to clean air vehicles…