High-occupancy vehicle lanes.

Existing law authorizes the Sunol Smart Carpool Lane Joint Powers Authority and the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency to conduct, administer, and operate a value pricing high-occupancy vehicle program, on specified highway corridors, that may authorize the entry and use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes by single-occupant vehicles for a fee. Existing law requires that the implementation of the program ensure that specified levels of service be maintained at all times in the high-occupancy vehicle lanes and that unrestricted access to the lanes by high-occupancy vehicles be available at all times. This bill would authorize the program to require a high-occupancy vehicle to have an electronic transponder or other electronic device for law enforcement purposes.