#Stick em up signs and decals oakland ca drivers

#Stick em up signs and decals oakland ca drivers

WTF? Can I use it or not? Why is most everyone else who is driving alone just sitting in stopped traffic? Are those single drivers zipping along in the carpool lane:Ī) Scofflaws? B) Those risk takers who have less adrenaline receptors than most of us and need more risk to feel stimulated? C) The type A+ people that feel entitled to cut to the head of the line in every situation? D) Or the law-abiding citizens that know something that you don't know and getting to SF way before you do? The answer is 'D'. Many cars cruising by you are indeed a 3+ person carpools. But, on the extreme left side, traffic is flowing in the diamond carpool lane that later, rather than bottle necking, expands the flow into two lanes. Let's assume that you are headed from Oakland on a Saturday and are heading to SF via 580 and make it to the area a few hundred yards away from the toll plaza that you referred to quite poignantly as the 'cluster-f.' Everyone is trying to figure out where the Fastrak lanes are, but even those lanes are not moving because everybody has Fastrak now. For the sake of simplicity, I'll start off with a basic situation, and then I'll get into the extra-credit Bay Bridge situations that our driving instructor didn't tell us we had to study for. The answers not only depend on what day it is and what time it is as, but they also depend on other factors such as: Where you are coming from, what sort of vehicle you are driving, and which type of carpool lane you want to use (yes, all carpool lanes on the Bay Bridge approach are not equal, and choosing the wrong one could cost you several hundred dollars.even if you are a carpool). But keeping true to form, the answers are not black and white, and the boiled-down version is most likely going to exceed the 500 word limit requested by my very understanding and accommodating editors. I'll try to boil down the miles of rules and regulations posted on the Bay Area Toll Authority website. Thanks Guru!!!!! JR Dear JR, Great questions. If it is a Saturday, and I have 2 people, can I use the lane? Or do I have to have 3 people? Or am I not charged with 3 people but charged with 2 people? I am sometimes tempted to pull a Larry David and pick up a 'friend' on the way back from Oaktown just to speed through the carpool lane and save myself 20 minutes of cluster-f misery. Some signs say 'Carpool Lane M-F', other signs only say '3 people required for carpool'. When I am driving back into the City from Oakland, I can never figure out if I can use the carpool lane.

You have made me look like I am smarter than I am on a topic that unites San Franciscans of all shapes and sizes! I've never seen this topic covered before, so I thought I'd ask.