AB 405, as introduced, Gatto. Highways: high-occupancy vehicle lanes: State Highway Route 134.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation and local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, to designate certain lanes for the exclusive or preferential use of high-occupancy vehicles. When those exclusive or preferential use lanes are established and double parallel solid lines are in place to the right thereof, existing law prohibits any person driving a vehicle from crossing over those double lines to enter into or exit from the lanes, and entrance or exit from those lanes is authorized only in areas designated for these purposes or where a single broken line is in place to the right of the lanes, except as specified.
This bill would prohibit, until June 1, 2014, any high-occupancy vehicle lane from being established on State Highway Route 134 between State Route 170 and Interstate 5 unless that lane is established as a high-occupancy vehicle lane only during the hours of heavy commuter traffic, as determined by the department. This bill would require any existing high-occupancy vehicle lane established at the specified location to be modified to conform with those requirements. This bill would require the Legislative Analyst to report to the Legislature on the impact on traffic by limiting the use of high-occupancy lanes as provided in the bill.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 21655.95 is added to the Vehicle Code,
2to read:
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, no
4high-occupancy vehicle lane may be established on State Highway
5Route 134 between State Highway Route 170 and Interstate 5
6unless the lane is established as a high-occupancy vehicle lane
7only during the hours of heavy commuter traffic, as determined
8by the Department of Transportation.
9(b) Any existing high-occupancy vehicle lane located as
10described in subdivision (a) shall be modified as necessary to
11conform with subdivision (a).
12(c) The Legislative Analyst shall report to the Legislature on or
13before March 31, 2014, on the impact on traffic by limiting the
14use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes during the hours of heavy
15commuter traffic as
provided in subdivision (a).
16(d) This section shall become inoperative on June 1, 2014, and,
17as of January 1, 2015, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
18that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2015, deletes or
19extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
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