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Cheaters in the carpool lane.

beavis

beavis

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I have been using the carpool lane a lot more in the last few months as I am driving my kid to/from the daycare. I have noticed that there are a lot of people who cheat (there are no kids/car seats in their cars) and drive in the carpool lanes almost everyday. From my observations people who cheat fall into 2 categories

- Luxury Car drivers
- Young Drivers (typically < 25 years).

How can the cops catch these people? There is no easy way for the cops to enforce this. Once they see the cops, it is very easy for them to merge into the regular lane.
 
I've always felt people who have a person in the car who isn't old enough to drive are cheating to be in the carpool lane. The whole point is to get a car off the road by "pooling" Taking your kid around doesn't qualify.
 
Cops catch them all the time, I think it's hilarious when they do... :laughing It's not a cheap ticket either...
 
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Once the cops see them, they're fucked.

I used to commute from 87N to 101N. That ramp was a real parking lot, except for the carpool lane. I was never tempted because every now and then you'd see the CHP at the end of the ramp with a long line of unwilling and unhappy customers. Heavy traffic cuts both ways...by the time they see the cops, there's no way to merge back in :laughing

Anyway carpool cheaters used to piss me off until I decided it was the cops' problem, not mine.
 
actually merging back into the regular lane is usually what tips the cop off that the car isn't supposed to be there :shhh
 
They should eliminate all diamond lanes anyway.
 
you have to look at the back of their vehicle




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Papi-C said:
I've always felt people who have a person in the car who isn't old enough to drive are cheating to be in the carpool lane. The whole point is to get a car off the road by "pooling" Taking your kid around doesn't qualify.
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just like cagers feeling about MCs lane splitting or in the carpool lane.
 
Papi-C said:
I've always felt people who have a person in the car who isn't old enough to drive are cheating to be in the carpool lane. The whole point is to get a car off the road by "pooling" Taking your kid around doesn't qualify.
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I wish my dog would qualify as a passenger, I'd take him with me everywhere... :teeth
 
I had a cheater piss me off once. By luck, a cop was next to me in #2 stuck in traffic. I pulled up next to him, pointed forward and let the cop in. He got the guy. :laughing

SCORE!
 
FUCK THOSE FUCKING CHEATERS.

and the douchebags that stay in the exit lane till the last second, and then jump back onto the freeway.

either one of those types piss me off, even if it doesn't affect me at all.
 
T-1 Thunder said:
I had a cheater piss me off once. By luck, a cop was next to me in #2 stuck in traffic. I pulled up next to him, pointed forward and let the cop in. He got the guy. :laughing

SCORE!
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A few years ago I was in the usual 880N at 237 traffic mess in Milpitas. We were stuck in the fast lane where the 237N->880N carpool ramp is located. The 237N->880N carpool ramp lane that feeds into 880N was fairly empty and a cheater decided to drive across the solid white painted 'wedge-merge' area into the carpool lane. The cheater did not see a CHP office down about 200 ft issuing a ticket to another cheater. The cheater saw the LEO and came to a stop in the middle of the "you're not supposed to be there" zone. The LEO looked REALLY pissed off and motioned the cheater towards him. I saw several drivers around me clap with great enthusiam :laughing.
 
Heh, last year I was southbound on 85 before Camden when a cheater rolls past me. He doesn't see the CHP about 10 cars in front of me in the #2, who was cleverly using a large SUV behind him for concealment. Cheater saw the CHP when he was about 5 cars away, and tries to merge back into the #2 lane. Nobody lets him merge. So now traffic in the carpool lane is backing up behind the cheater, just calling more attention to him, still he doesn't want to pass the CHP car.

Finally somebody relents and lets him into the #2, where he proceeds to cut across to the #3. CHP merges into #3 ahead of him. Cheater merges into #4 as if to exit on Camden. CHP merges onto #4, then proceeds to park on the shoulder between the Camden exit and #3 lane, just waiting for the cheater. Cheater gives up at this point, merges back to #3, and CHP lights him up when he goes by.

I just had to honk and give the cheater the whole "point & laugh" routine when I rolled by. :laughing
 
Papi-C said:
I'd agree on the latter but not the former. The latter also defeats the purpose of the carpool lane as you do w/ your child. Splitting doesn't.
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carpool lanes reward those who create less congestion and pollutants. motorcycles fit both criteria.
 
mean dad said:
carpool lanes reward those who create less congestion and pollutants. motorcycles fit both criteria.
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Less Congestion sure, less pollutants? Not necessarily. The bar is way way lower for bikes who only in the last several needed to get cats from the factory
 
What pisses me off is that just when the priuses are about to be kicked out of the carpool lane, Sacramento extended the idiot pass for hybrid cars and is talking about issuing additional ones! :wtf

I know that on 80 WB in the morning, the HOV lane is often slower than the other lanes due to all of the people using it, many of them prius drivers!
 
Eyeball the clock and make sure to read the carpool signs. I've "cheated" many a time, but that is because carpool lanes are only 'active' during certain parts of the day. You are free to drive in the carpool lane for more than half the day.
 
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