

But again, you've got to have a FasTrak Flex tag on you, otherwise the overhead cameras will photograph your license plate and send you a bill, which will be the toll plus a penalty fee. Three or more, unless you ride a motorcycle, in which case you can use the lanes without paying a toll. How many people have to be in my car for me to use the express lanes for free? But you'll need to have a FasTrak CAV toll tag in your car to get that discount or you'll be penalized. Customers driving clean-air vehicles, such as cars that run on fuel cells, battery or plug-in hybrids that have a valid clean-air vehicle decal from the Department of Motor Vehicles, will qualify for a 50% discount on tolls. So can electric vehicles still use the express lanes for free? Those two groups will have to pay half of the toll price to use an express lane.Īnyone using an express lane, even those who don't need to pay a toll, will have to have a FasTrak toll tag with them. Vehicles with two passengers, who used to take advantage of carpool lanes, won't get a free ride anymore - and neither will clean-air vehicle drivers.
91 FREEWAY EXPRESS LANE SINGLE OCCUPANCY VEHICLE FOR FREE
on weekdays, these lanes can be used for free by carpools of three persons or more, vanpools, motorcyclists and buses. Part of the Bay Area Express Lanes program, the newly designated toll lanes are the latest way that transportation agencies are trying to manage traffic congestion.įrom 5 a.m.

Highway 101 between state Route 237 in Mountain View and Whipple Avenue in Redwood City. Now, drivers are faced with a dizzying array of signs and lane markings on U.S. The highway toll lanes that have been popping up in other parts of the Bay Area, notably Interstate Highway 880, debuted on the Peninsula on Feb. New highway express lanes from Mountain View to Redwood City have replaced carpool lanes on U.S.
