I don't see why any justice of the peace would give a reduction to any HOV lane violation. To me that's as black and white of a ticket as there is. You were either in it, or you weren't. What could there possibly be to argue?
Just curious what OP's case would be when talking to the JoP. "Please reduce my ticket because I took time out of my day to be here?"
It would be funny if OP went to the office to get the reduction, they noted it was already reduced, but because he tried to scam the system they bumped it back up. Not sure if that's something they are allowed to do, but I would have a hearty chuckle if that happened.
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I'm glad they are starting to enforce those. They really needed to start doing that, or remove them all together. There is on on 9 ave SE through Inglewood that I have not seen enforced. So I either have to break the law along with everybody else, or fight through bumper to bumper traffic to get into the lane when I need to turn.
To the OP- be careful in fighting this. The may have given you the cheapest ticket possible, and you stating what happened in court could get the charge increased. They may have given you something like "failing to maintain lane"- when you really did a "driving in HOV lane."
The one on 9th AVE is not HOV for personal vehicles, the signage is Transit and Bicycles only during the specified timings. I have seen them police it way down by the old brewery.
Aren't you allowed to use that HOV / Transit Only lane on Centre St. if you're about to turn on McKnight, or did the OP just continue straight through or use it for the entire stretch?
Aren't you allowed to use that HOV / Transit Only lane on Centre St. if you're about to turn on McKnight, or did the OP just continue straight through or use it for the entire stretch?
There's a ~100m stretch approaching the intersection where you can merge into the lane (after the non-merge stretch) and turn right only. Lots of jackasses just go straight through across McKnight in the buslane to jump the queue however.
Riding the lane from ~44 Ave N is for Buses and Bikes only.
I'm glad they are starting to enforce those. They really needed to start doing that, or remove them all together. There is on on 9 ave SE through Inglewood that I have not seen enforced. So I either have to break the law along with everybody else, or fight through bumper to bumper traffic to get into the lane when I need to turn.
My wife got a ticket there a couple years ago, so they do enforce it.
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Who cares about the fine. Which regular member of CP has this 2nd account?
My guess is Locke.
What? Why are you dragging me into this?
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The original post is perhaps the least Corsi-esque post one could imagine. It is only four sentences long and admits to non-mastery of a legal issue.
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I really don't even know why the HOV lane exists at all on Centre Street from about 12th Ave towards downtown.
Everyone turning on 2nd Avenue after the bridge have to be in the HOV lane anyways, so it's backed up. Most buses get out of the HOV lane into the middle lane so they can get through that congestion during peak times. If you have a HOV lane where buses avoid, you've goofed.
To be fair to the OP, $60 can be a lot of money to some people, but it does seem unlikely that they would reduce a ticket that was already reduced down to less than 1/3rd of the original fine.
I have heard that some jurisdictions allow payments plans or even community service in lieu of paying a fine. I don't know anyone who actually did that though.
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