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Re: [cars] allow infrequent drivers to use carpool lanes? (ignore misc.*)

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From: Mark Wilson
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 20:36
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In <C4F2vw.2J0@efi.com> dchung@efi.com (Daniel Chung) writes:


|     Has anyone thought about letting infrequent driver to use carpool
|lanes?  An infrequent driver already does not drive regularly.  So, it
|(he/she) is not a major cause of pollution or congestion.  But because of
|special occations, e.g. once a week needing to drive to work, it may
|have to use the car.  So, since it is not a *regular* causer of pollution
|or congestion, it is fair to allow it to use a carpool lane to avoid
|non-car-pooling regular drivers.

|     While I *consider* an infrequant driver to be one who drives
|around (fuzzy concept) once a week, I can *define* (non-fuzzy concept)
|it to be one who (!) has a bus or train pass -- because it must be
|using public transport most of the time.

Someone who drives that infrequently should be able to time their trips
so they are not driving during rush hour.

Secondly how do you identify the cars of infrequent drivers so the cops
know who not to ticket?  How do you prevent someone who was once an
infrequent driver from resuming frequent driver status while retaining
their infrequent driver identification?
-- 
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From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
Subject: Re: [cars] allow infrequent drivers to use carpool lanes? (ignore misc.*)
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